Wanjeri Gakuru
Wanjeri Gakuru is a journalist, essayist, curator and filmmaker. She has co-written award-winning feature films including the internationally acclaimed Supa Modo (2018) and Lusala (2019). Her short film, Transaction (2024), was the winner of a 2022 DocuBox Short Film Grant, was selected as a 2022 Interfilm Script Lab finalist, and secured a 2023 Kosinima Short Film Grant. Wanjeri was in the writers’ room for Country Queen, Kenya's first original TV series on Netflix.
Jackson Kangethe
Jackson Kang'ethe graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and Theatre Arts from Kenyatta University. He won the ‘Best Cinematographer Award’ at the 48-hour film project (2021) for Hypnagogia. He was nominated for ’Best Director of Photography Award’, alongside Ishmael Azeli, for the film Midlife Crisis by Zippy Okoth at the 2020 Kalasha Film and TV Awards. His career as a cinematographer has encompassed narrative features, shorts, documentaries, music videos and commercials.
Wendy Kirorei
Wendy Kirorei is a graduate of the Kenya Institue of Mass Communication. She is a documentary film producer and photographer based in Nairobi with over several years’ experience in international media, specializing in visual storytelling. Her diverse portfolio includes projects in politics, human rights, health, education, terrorism, arts, culture, and development. Wendy is the founder and owner of Nilotic Nomad Production Studios. She won ‘Best Documentary Director Award’ at the 2024 Women in Film Awards.
Bramwel Iro
Bramwel Iro is a Pan African film producer, bringing African perspectives to global audiences. He is Co-founder and Co-CEO of LBx Africa, a Nairobi-based production company that produces high quality fiction and non-fiction content for the international market. He is producer of Mbithi Masya’s BABA (2022), which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and Executive Producer on the feature documentaries FREE MONEY’ (TIFF 2022), No Simple Way Home (Berlinale 2022) and Softie (Sundance 2020) which won the World Cinema Special Jury Award for Editing at the Sundance Film Festival 2020. He is an alumnus of Produire au Sud (2021), Durban FilmMart Institute (2021) and Creative Producer Indaba (2022).
Darius Okolla
Darius Okolla is a policy practitioner whose work primarily focuses on public policy, geopolitics, research, and advocacy. He currently manages projects, events and partnerships at The Elephant under Inuka Ni Sisi Ltd. He has previously consulted for Greenpeace Africa, PEN International, Heinrich Boll Foundation, PAWA 254, and Tearfund South Africa. His work primarily focuses on public policy, geopolitics, research, and advocacy.