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We Need Prayers: This One Went to Market

We Need Prayers: This One Went to Market

Jim Chuchu | Kenya | 2017 | 5' |

Pan-African Cinema Today (PACT)

| IFFR 2018

A young African visual artist has a sly plan to break through into the global arts market (Jim Chuchu). The work that was commissioned by the Performa Festival in New York stars Kenyan singer, songwriter, actress, radio and reality television personality Patricia Kihoro.

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Film details

Country of production: Kenya
Year: 2017
Festival edition: IFFR 2018
Length: 5"
Medium/Format: DCP
Language: English, Swahili
Premiere status: European premiere
Director: Jim Chuchu
Screenplay: The Nest Collective
Cinematography: Noel Kasyoka
Editing: Jim Chuchu
Music: Jim Chuchu
Production company: The Nest Arts Company Limited
Producer: Njeri Gitungo / The Nest Arts Company Limited
Sales / World rights holder: The Nest Arts Company Limited
Production design: Sunny Dolat
Sound design: Mars
Principal cast: Patricia Kihoro, Hilda Gichungo

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