Award-winning Swahili filmmaker, writer and content creator mainly focusing on intangible cultural heritage, human-interest stories and various social issues.
🇩🇪 Berlin International Film Festival [Berlinale] 2023 Participant
🏆 Official Selection Reel County Film Festival 2023 [Film: The Pink Champions]
🏆 Kalasha International Film & TV Awards 2022 - Best Documentary Short, Best Sound Designer, Best Editor [Film: Kiswahili Kitukuzwe]
🏆 Kalasha Internationa Film & TV Market 2022 SMASH Competition [Short film shot and edited mobile phone] - 3rd Winner [Film: Rukia]
🏆 Swahili International Film Festival 2022 - Best Documentary [Film: TETE SERIES EP 1 ~ The Biography of Habib Swaleh - Lamu, Kenya]
🏆 Mozilla Common Voice Swahili Creative Writing Competition 2022 - 2nd Winner [Short story: Mapend’i T’ungu-nzima (Lots of Love)]
⭐️ HEVA Fund Ignite Culture Grant 2022 [180,000 Euros] Finalist - [Film: TETE SERIES]
🏆 Coast Film Festival 2021 - Best Documentary [Film: TETE SERIES EP 1 ~ The Biography of Habib Swaleh - Lamu, Kenya]
🏴 SOAS University of London - Baraza: Swahili Studies Conference 2021 Panelist