Screen Africa on Africa First film Pumzi

By Nick Dawson On October 09, 2009

The new issue of Screen Africa magazine has an article on Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu's short film Pumzi, which was produced as part of Focus Features' Africa First program. (We wrote about Wanuri and her work on the FilmInFocus site last year, when she described the 20-minute movie as "a futuristic short set in Nairobi when the outside is extinct and has been outlawed.")

In her interview with Screen Africa, Kahui talks about her working relationship with Kudzani Moswela, the debutant actress from South Africa who plays the lead role of Asha in Pumzi:

"She breathed into the film unimaginable softness and courage. She became the heart of my heart. Her interpretation of Asha and the story was painfully tender and through it new, undiscovered layers of the film came alive."

There is a short preview of the article on the Screen Africa website, with the full interview available in the print edition.