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I Want to Be a Pilot
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Directed byDiego Quemada-Diez
Written byDiego Quemada-Diez
Produced byDiego Quemada-Diez
StarringJoseph Kyalo Kioko, Collins Otieno, Gaudencia Ayuma Shichenga, Kepha Onduru, Joseph Kyalo Kioko
CinematographyDiego Quemada-Diez
Edited byKim Bica
Release date
  • 22 February 2006 (2006-02-22)
Running time
12 minutes
CountryKenya
LanguageEnglish
Budget€8,000 (estimated)[1]

I Want to Be a Pilot is a 2006 award-winning Kenyan - Mexican short film docufiction written and directed by Diego Quemada-Diez. The movie has earned more than 50 international prizes, including the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival and has participated in over 200 film festivals such as Sundance, Locarno, Telluride, Edinburgh, Amiens, Los Angeles, São Paulo, Manhattan, Silverdocs, Bermuda, San Francisco.

Plot

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The short film story tells about dreams of Omondi, a young orphan boy living in the slums of Kenya’s capital. A powerful and poetic filmic protest from a member of the crew that made The Constant Gardener. This award-winning Kenyan-Mexican short film documentary shows a poverty-stricken boy in one of the poorest parts of Kenya who looks up towards the heavens and dreams of being an airline pilot, of being able to fly.[2]

Cast

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  • Joseph Kyalo Kioko[3]
  • Kepha Onduru
  • Collins Otieno ... Omondi
  • Gaudencia Ayuma Schichenga

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References

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  1. ^ "Estimated Budget at the Internet Movie Data Base". Retrieved 21 October 2009.
  2. ^ "I Want To Be A Pilot". Movies that Matter. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Reframe Peterborough international film festival 2010: I want to be a pilot". Reframe film festival. Archived from the original on 18 January 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
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