Kivu ruhorahoza biography

  • Kivu Ruhorahoza is a Rwandese film director, writer and producer.
  • Born in Kigali on December 6, 1982, Kivu entered the film career working in 2004 as a production assistant for Eric Kabera, a Rwandan producer.
  • As an international multi-award-winning filmmaker and artist, Ruhorahoza has, to date, directed eleven short and feature films that have screened globally at.
  • The ambitious wanderer: interview with Rwandan director Kivu Ruhorahoza

    ‘Most struggling directors use journalists as their therapist. It’s not right.’ It’s one of the first things the Rwandan film director Kivu Ruhorahoza says as I arrive for our interview over lunch.

    Turns out this is typical Kivu; deadpan humour that requires its audience to keep up. The director isn’t intending to confide his problems in me nor is he really struggling. According to most criteria, he’s successful. He’s won a litany of prizes which show how international and endless the film circuit is: his 2011 film, Grey Matter, won the Jury Special Prize of the Khouribga Film Festival in Morocco; an award at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York; been officially selected for the Sundance Festival; and screened at the Tate Modern as part of Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun project.  He’s also directed music videos for US rapper Saul Williams and the Rwandan spoken-word artist Eric 1key. And he’s only 32.

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    Most of his struggle comes from ensuring his vision remains uncompromised. He set up a film production company in order to make his current project, Things of the Aimless Wanderer. It’s an elliptical woozy fi

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    Kivu Ruhorahoza, 30, is a filmmaker and writer from Rwanda. Kivu’s experimental film work has been featured at the London Tate Modern (part of Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun project), the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and several other prestigious venues across the world. His shorts films have won prestigious awards including the City of Venice Prize at the Milan African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival, Best African Short and the Montréal Vues d’Afrique Festival. At its World Premiere, Kivu’s feature film *Grey Matter*got a Jury Special Mention for Best Emerging Filmmaker and won the Best Actor award at the prestigious TriBeCa Film Festival. The film went on to win Best Director and Signis Award at the Cordoba African Film Festival,
    Jury Prize at the Khouribga African Film Festival, Grand Prize at the Tübingen French Film Festival and several other awards.

    Kivu Ruhorahoza was a 2012 Rolex Mentor and Protégé nominee, section film. His next feature film, *Jomo*, is being developed by famous French designer and film producer Agnès B (whose last productions include Spring Breakers by Harmony Korine). He has also written fi

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  • The McMillan-Stewart Fellowship: Kivu Ruhorahoza

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