Films
Kesho Pia Ni Siku : Tomorrow Is Another Day
BLOCK C | Bold & Beautiful
Thursday, March 23 | 8 - 10 PM
The Mercantile | Burro Alley
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DOCUMENTARY | 2021 | 9 min. 20 sec.
SUGGESTED RATING | G
ELIGIBLE | Woman to Watch
COUNTRY | Kenya
LANGUAGE | English
PRODUCER | Wanzilū Maingi
DIRECTOR | Ng'endo Mukii
WRITER | Njeri Mereka
CAST | Njeri Mereka
Synopsis
"Kesho Pia Ni Siku" is a story of rebirth. It means “Tomorrow is Another Day.” Njeri Mereka is a smooth-talking, hymn-singing, 67 year old grandmother who runs her small boutique, Kanyoko Fabrics and Designs in Nairobi. She retells how she unintentionally started her business from the boot of her 1990 Toyota Corolla, survived a market fire, the social alienation of divorce, and the economic calamities of Kenya, to become independent as a business woman, and face another day.
About the Director
Ng'endo Mukii is an award-winning film director most well known for ‘Yellow Fever,’ her documentary-animation exploring Western influences on African women's ideals of beauty.
At the prestigious Design Indaba conference she presented her talk, ‘Film Taxidermy and Re-Animation,’ proposing the use of animation as a means of rehumanising the ‘indigenous’ image; a people whose ‘real’ image is burdened with stereotypes of being
the ‘Other.’
Ng’endo is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and holds a Master of Arts in Animation from the Royal College of Art. She is an alumni of the beautiful Berlinale Talents, the distinguished Urucu Media REALNESS Screenwriter’s Residency, and the incredible Goethe Institute Bahia Vila Sul artists’ residency.••• She is a writer on Netflix’s Mama K’s Team 4 series, and is one of 10 directors selected for the upcoming Disney+ and Triggerfish animated anthology, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire.
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