
NAWI – Moodtrailer
Starring
Michelle Lemuya
Joel Liwan
Benson Ochungo Obiero
Benson Ojuwa
Michelle Tiren
Patrick Oketch
with Manianne Nungo
and Nyokabi Maccharia
writers
Milcah Cherotich Mihcael
Kevin & Toby Schmutzler
DIRECTOrs
Kevin & Toby Schmutzler
Producers
Brizan Were
Lydia Wrensch
Caroline Muhl
Exec. Producers
Ludwig Bayern
Katja Eichinger
Matthias Rosenberger
partners
Learning Lions
Wakanda Girls Highschool
Baobab Pictures
DOP
Klaus Kneist
NAWI is a story about an ambitious young girl whose father sells her off to a stranger for cattle. It is an educational feature film project that was shot in Turkana (a County in Northern Kenya) beginning of 2023. Together with the NGO Learning Lions, we try to give an insight into the issue of illegal child marriage which is still very common in the rural regions of Turkana. NAWI is currently in postproduction and will be out 2024.
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Off the record: Learning Lions hosted a writing competition in the forefield to find both a story and a topic that is crucial for the region as well as originally African. The winner of this competition – Milcah, who submitted a compelling story about forced marriage – visited us in Germany and then our team visited her and the Learning Lions program in Turkana to host a Kenyan-German writers' room in the desert.