Filmmaker Notes
“KIBERA KID is the story of Otieno, but it is also the story of Kibera, of the strength of the human spirit that keeps going in the face of overwhelming odds.” -- Nathan Collett
KIBERA BACKGROUND
Nestling between the rolling plains of Nairobi’s famous National Park and the city’s leafy suburbs is Kibera, Africa's largest slum and home to more than one million people squeezed into an area smaller than New York’s Central Park. Kibera residents all live on less than one dollar a day, crowded in shacks with no sanitation, electricity, or other municipal services. Theirs is too often a life of tragic disempowerment, and a constant fight for survival amongst the harshest relentless poverty.
Yet there is hope, there is talent, and there are new possibilities emerging from the creative youth within Kibera. Kibera Kid exposes those talents and stories to the world, in the first international film made entirely using youth from Kibera.
Based on the success of KIBERA KID short film, Hot Sun Foundation is currently working with youth in Kibera to develop a world first – a feature film made in by for with residents of an African slum. Watch for it!
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