Kisha Imani Cameron
- President, Completions Films
- Program Director, Focus Features
- Africa First Short Film Program
Kisha Imani Cameron runs the production company Completion Films, which has a first-look deal with Focus Features. Cameron uses her knowledge, passion and relationships in the world of African cinema to bring in and produce low-budget films with some of Africas most promising young filmmakers. With Focus, Cameron is currently developing The Fighting Prince, directed by South African filmmaker Norman Maake, based on the true story of SA boxer Arthur Mayisela and the Nigerian film Area Boys, directed by Omelihu Nwanguma and written by acclaimed Nigerian playwright Oladipo Agboluaje. Cameron is also producing the horror film, Razor Wire, and with New York-based producer Krista Parris, a feature adaptation of Dinaw Mengestu's acclaimed debut novel The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears; and a narrative film about Jonestown. Previously, Cameron served as Associate Producer on Sometimes in April, the HBO film based on true events surrounding the 1994 genocide in Rwanda; and on Spike Lee's controversial film, Bamboozled. She has an extensive background in studio development, having been an executive at New Line Cinema and Walden Media. Kisha holds a BFA in Film Production from NYUs Tisch School of the Arts.
ABOUT FOCUS FEATURES
Focus Features (www.filminfocus.com) is a motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company committed to bringing moviegoers the most original stories from the world's most innovative filmmakers. The company's Academy Award-winning films have included Brokeback Mountain, The Pianist, Lost in Translation, The Constant Gardener, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Motorcycle Diaries, and Atonement.
Current and upcoming Focus Features releases include Bharat Nalluri's Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams; Andrew Fleming's irreverent comedy Hamlet 2, starring Steve Coogan; Shane Acker's animated fantasy epic 9, starring Elijah Wood and Jennifer Connelly; Henry Selick's stop-motion animated feature Coraline, starring Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher; Cary Fukunaga's immigrant thriller Sin Nombre; Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, and Brad Pitt; writer/director Jim Jarmusch's new film, tentatively titled The Limits of Control, starring Isaach De Bankolé; Gus Van Sant's Milk, starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk; and a contemporary comedy to be directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes.
Focus Features is part of NBC Universal, one of the worlds leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Formed in May 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80% owned by General Electric and 20% owned by Vivendi.
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