Maskaniflani - Doc trailer

Maskaniflani is a journey into Kenya public space and public art scene. This participatory documentary tells the story of a group of Kenyan musicians, Ukoo Flani, that decided to support the cause of Public Space and Public Art in their own country. The documentary starts with the story of the 3 main characters: Richie, POP and Fujo. They decided to record a song about Maskani, to share with other Kenyans their opinions about what the word Maskani really means for them. The documentary follows the 3 main characters before, during and after the making of he song and the music video. In the second part of the documentary Rchie, POP and Fujo will interview artists, citizens and activists to understand better what and how public space and public art is important for Kenyans. This documentary will finish with 2 crazy "public art live performances": a Maskani funeral in Mombasa and a public oath in Uhururu park in Nairobi (2009)

Trash is Cash

A participatory film documentary about environment and recycling solutions in Nairobi’s slums realized in partnership with Formada, a youth self group from the slum of Dandora - Nairobi. Trash is Cash is an itinerant documentary, made during the director’s eight-month stay inside the slum of Dandora. From the visual reality of shacks and crowded roads, you will get to know the youth who are living there, understand their needs and share the solutions they come up without any outside help. The innovative force connected with the use of the waste as a source of alternative energy will succeed. The positive results are that recycling creates a source of income for a big number of people in a slum where joblessness and surplus trash cause a major part of the problems. In this age when pollution and the deforestation are destroying our planet, from the slum comes a very interesting and innovative lesson (2008)

Mifugu Ni Mali - Herd is richness

A video ethnology about the Maasai tribe of Paracuyo, Tanga, Tanzania. Maasai tell us about themselves, they explain who they are and what might be their future. The relationship with the occidental world, the changes in the world and in their villages. For the Maasai the communication with the external world is fundamental: if the Maasai culture is survived till now thanks to isolation, today the chiefs of the villages know that the communication and the opening to the external world through the video is a way to improve their culture. The discovery of this world makes us to think. The news about the environment that come out every day give us a picture of a world to the limit of survival, with a few years of life due to the pollution and the over-exploitation of the natural resources. An absolutely necessary need of a comparison with a different world comes out. A more respectful world for the nature and the living beings (2007)