User:CiruKinyanjui

Wanjiru Kinyanjui, born in 1959 in Kenya, is an independent Screen Writer, Drama and Film Director/Consultant and Teacher.

Education

 * 1995    Postgraduate Film school: German Academy for Film & Television Berlin (DFFB)
 * 1987    MA (English and German Literature): Technical University (TU)
 * 1985    Development Project Scholarship to Kenya with ASA-Carl-Duisberg Gesellschaft (Germany):Research on Women's groups in     Kenya.
 * 1979    International Baccalaureate (IB), United World College of the Pacific, L.B. Pearson, Victoria BC Canada
 * 1975    EACE, Alliance Girls' High School, Kikuyu, Kenya
 * 1972    CPE, Morrison Primary School, Nairobi

Current Activities 2006/2007

 * CHAIRPERSON OF THE KENYA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TRUST
 * Organisation and launch of the first Kenya Internation Film Festival in October 2006. Currently, the Trust is preparing the second festival in September or October.

2003 - 2007

 * Cannes International Film Festival (She participated, co-facilitated and taught Screenwriting at a workshop in Nairobi.
 * She came up with the Founding Idea of the literary organisation "Kwani"
 * Event organiser of Kenya Women Films at Goethe Institute, Nairobi (Six day festival)
 * Member of the Jury: Kisima Music Awards, Kenya Reasearch on River Road video production for 3 months (Ford Foundation grantee)
 * Part time German time