ABOUT WANURI KAHIU
Director, filmmaker, and producer whose 2018 film, Rafiki, became the first Kenyan film to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival. She is also known for several other movies including 2009's Pumzi and 2008's From a Whisper.
In the year 2001, she graduated from the University of Warwick with a BSc degree in Management Science.
In the year 2019, it was announced that she would direct Millie Bobby Brown in an adaptation of the YA novel The Thing About Jellyfish. She co-founded the African art media collective Afrobubblegum. In the year 2023, she was honored with the Spirit of Cinema Award at the 28th International Film Festival of Kerala.
Her husband is a cardiologist. They have two children.
In 2006, she directed a behind-the-scenes documentary titled The Spark that Unites, about Phillip Noyce 's film Catch a Fire.
