Caroline Kamya
Caroline Kamya | |
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| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) |
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| Occupation(s) | Film director and producer |
Caroline Kamya (born 1974) is a British Ugandan film director and producer.[1][2][3]
Early life
[edit]Kamya was born and raised in Uganda, Kenya and the U.K.[4]
Education
[edit]Kamya has a BSc in architecture and urban design and a MA in TV documentary from Goldsmiths College, London.
Career
[edit]Kamya has won over 10 awards internationally and has worked in television in London before setting up a production house in Kampala, IVAD International.[1] Kamya's debut feature film, Imani (2010), opened at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival,[5] where it was nominated for Best First Feature. Chips and Liver Girls, codirected with Danish director Boris Benjamin Bertram in 2010, was a short film about young Ugandan women and "the men who pay for their studies".[6] The short film Fire Fly (2011) was shot in China.
Filmography
[edit]- Chips and Liver Girls (short), 2011
- Imani, 2010
- Fire Fly (short), 2011
- The Peace Between, 2019
References
[edit]- ^ a b Caroline Kamya at IMDb
- ^ "Caroline Kamya Film director, Graphic artist, Producer, Architect, Screenwriter". africine.org. Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC). 2020. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
Born in 1974 in Kampala (Uganda). Award winning Ugandan Filmmaker Caroline Kamya completed degrees in England in Architecture at the prestigious Bartlett (UCL) and an MA in TV Documentary at Goldsmith College.
- ^ "Caroline Kamya Réalisateur/trice, Dessinateur/trice, Producteur/trice, Architecte, Scénariste". africultures.com (in French). Africultures. Les mondes en relation. 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
Elle est née à Kampala (Ouganda), en 1974. Elle a obtenu son diplôme d'architecture à Londres, et en 1996, celui de dessin urbain. Elle travaille pendant plus de sept ans à la BBC comme productrice. Aujourd'hui, elle se dédie exclusivement à la production et à la mise en scène de documentaires.
- ^ Mette Hjort; Ursula Lindqvist (2016). A Companion to Nordic Cinema. John Wiley & Sons. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-118-47528-7.
- ^ "IFFR 2024 25 Jan – 4 Feb Caroline Kamya". iffr.com. International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
Caroline KAMYA (1974, Uganda) was educated in Architecture and Urban Design and holds a MA in TV Documentary. In 1999 she set up her own production company iVAD in London.
- ^ Rob Stone; Paul Cooke; Stephanie Dennison (2017). The Routledge Companion to World Cinema. Taylor & Francis. p. 988. ISBN 978-1-317-42058-3.
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