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Sagwa studied Film and Media Arts at Temple University, Philadelphia. He has produced feature films such as Formula X (2007) and Haunted Souls (2015) as well as documentaries , music videos and animation shorts. He has led production and scriptwriting workshops in East Africa and is committed to bringing to the forefront the forgotten stories about Africa. It is with this in mind that he has embraced the challenge to use new media to bring these stories set in Africa to life.
An award-winning filmmaker and graduate of NYU's acclaimed graduate film program. Amyn has always wanted to make films set in East Africa, where his parents and grandparents lived for many years. His latest screenplay, "Sticky," about the street kids of Nairobi, won the 2017 Cinestory Award for Best Screenplay and is currently in the works for production in 2022. In the meantime, Amyn has been directing television series, including "Animal Kingdom," "The Resident," "Supernatural," "Charmed," "The 100," "Walker" and more while also writing and directing movies for Netflix, Hallmark, and Lifetime. He is excited about the potential to make films in Africa and to share those great stories with the world.
Safari is a character-driven thriller that puts to the test the relationship between a mother and her troubled teenage son when their car breaks down in Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.
Adapted from the short story “Custody” by Maya Perez.
Kimani, a bright boy, must join a gang of “Chokora” (Street Kids) in order to survive in Nairobi. But the life of petty crime and glue-sniffing threatens to derail his dreams of one day becoming a pilot and escaping a life of poverty.
From an award-winning screenplay by Amyn Kaderali.
This is a story by Nildo & Halima Essa about a girl called Lili who goes on a journey to save her grandmother who has been poisoned. Through a series of adventures with her two friends Ze and Stretch, they discover hidden stories about her people in Mozambique and a secret from traditional healers.
An original one-hour African drama that blends history and myth to reveal a fantastic tale of a seer with magical abilities from the ancient African kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara who sets out to rescue 3 kings and a Queen forcefully taken from their kingdoms by British soldiers and living on an island as they plot their escape.
Created and written by Sagwa Chabeda, © RZ04774 Kenya Copyright Board.
Set in the beautiful 19th century Kingdom of Buganda. The story is centered at the royal court about how conflicts between the English, French and Arabs from Zanzibar led to a group of pages defying their King leading to their heroic deaths and becoming catholic saints.
Screenplay by Sagwa Chabeda.
