Latest in Wanuri Kahiu

EXCLUSIVE: Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu has come aboard to direct Paramount Player’s feature adaptation of bestselling author Angie Thomas’ second novel On The Come Up.  The director behind the 2018 Cannes Film Festival premiere Rafiki is stepping in for George Tillman Jr. who was originally attached to On The Come Up…

EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group, which most recently produced Disney+’s Stargirl based on the bestselling novel, has made its latest book deal. It has optioned Christina Hammonds Reed's upcoming debut YA novel The Black Kids, setting Rafiki helmer Wanuri Kahiu to direct and Allison Davis to adapt it. The novel, to be…

EXCLUSIVE: Wanuri Kahiu, the who made history this year when her LGBTQ movie Rafiki became the first movie from Kenya to be selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, is set to direct Covers, a romance set in the Los Angeles music world, for Working Title and Universal. She was signed after an international…

A tender, colorful lesbian love story set in the bustling streets of Nairobi, Wanuri Kahiu's Rafiki was an early hit at this year's Cannes film festival, screening in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Sadly, the film was not so warmly received in Kenya, where the authorities—much like the broader community in Kahiu's…

EXCLUSIVE: Wanuri Kahiu, the award-winning writer-director of Rafiki, a film that was banned in Kenya after the filmmaker refused to alter the film’s portrayal of a lesbian relationship and played at this year’s Cannes in Un Certain Regard, has signed with The Gotham Group. The movie was the first Kenyan film invited…