Amina Rwimo Hortence-a lady with difference

Exile Key Films is bless to have a lady on board. Her name is Amina Rwimo Hortence. She is a filmmaker from DR Congo who is currently based in Kakuma Refugee Camp.

Ms Rwimo, 24,is one of the FilmAid International's 2015 Film Training Program (FTP) Alumni.

Filmmaking key info

• 2015- Finished FTP and earn award for best director of the year.
• Joined Exile Key Films (2015)
• Early Marriage Film (2015)-A film about Early marriage in Turkana, Kenya-Continuity
• Bamba Chakula film 2016 (a food voucher project in Kakuma refugee camp) - as Make-up artist

• Living Positively (2015)-as script/screenwriter
• Homeland- Main character, Director & Scriptwriter
• It has Killed My Mother (2017)-Produced a short film on Female Gentile Mutilation (FGM). She is the Director and scriptwriter
• A Journey Through My City (2017)-A film to create awareness on peaceful coexistence between the Kenyan (hosts) and the refugees living in Kakuma Refugee camp. Amina act as Production Assistant.

Apparently, Amina's film 'It Has Killed My Mother' has been nominated for The Slum Film Festival.

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It Killed My Mother Nominated for 2017 The Slum Film Festival

Dear audience,

It has been a while since we last posted on this blog. Various reasons made us to do so. Presumably, you may be guessing but in truth Exile Key Films is working on a lot
of projects behind the scene.  In fact we have some news.

The Slum Film Festival
Image Copyrights: Slum Film Festival

Lately, our film It Killed My Mother passed through the lenses and now it is here. It made it into the Slum Festival with our cast getting nominated under various categories. The film
itself got nominated to represent Kenya.

This feat is the work our team has been burning night oil. Without wasting adding a lot time,  check out full information on The Slum Film Festival 2017 website.

Thanks,

Exile Key Films

Betty -Mother goes to school with her three children

The Refugee Flag! Kakuma Refugees Participating in the Olympic

Refugee Olympic athletes. Image credits (All reserved by Olympic

In an ideal world, the word refugee is seen and perceived with persons of no identity, homeless and hopelessness but in this ‘ideal’ world of Olympic, it’s a statement. Surprisingly, Olympic recently displaced 77,000 people in Rio and replace them with our current participants-refugees.

The refugee problem is a world phenomenon but who cares as long as one of us is there representing refugees and their horror-shocking stories. Kakuma Refugee Camp is bless. For the first time, unlike few things in the past or maybe in the foreseeable future, it’s a miracle. Just like when the first Lost Boy landed in the United States and called back that he is safe and sound, everyone is eager to know what is on the big screen.

In preparation for this event, FilmAid International initiate a live roadshow of the Olympic. So the question is, if these refugees can use the Olympic flag and anthem, so what is a refugee flag? Why can’t they use parent rescuing committee or agency?

Hopeful, our guys do for us proud. After all, it’s a moment to enjoy, cherish, record and remember. In fact, it’s an encouragement to al refugees to look into the future, work hard and believe that one day, changes will come.

Without being left behind, Exile Key Films is celebrating this and in the near future, hope to take refugees stories to a new level.

Exile Key Films Endorse Education for All

Education in Kakuma Refugee Camp is one of the key basic provisions by the UNHCR, LWF, Don Bosco, Windle Trust Kenya among other agencies. School-going kids from pre-unit all the way to secondary, tertiary and recently a university (Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology) are available.

These beneficiaries (children) face various problems. In essence, lack of support, inadequate resources + etc. It's for this reason that Exile Key Films that work with the refugees by using films, documentaries, photography and other media to uplift and create impact in their lives.

Young Turkana kids herding goats pose for a snap in Kakuma Refugee Camp. Abdul Patient|Exile Key Films 2016