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KENNETH GYANG

Kenneth Gyang was born on the 23rd of March 1986 in Barkin Ladi of Plateau State, Nigeria.

He studied Film Production at the National Film Institute in Jos (where he directed amongst others, two short films on cine) and screenwriting at Gaston Kabore's IMAGINE in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Two of his short films as well as a script titled "Game of Life" were selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus 2006 and "Mummy Lagos" was well recieved as an official competition entry.

"Mummy Lagos" was also selected for the Sithengi Talent Campus as part of the Cape Town World Cinema Festival in South Africa.

His film "Omule" won Best Documentary Film at the 1st Nigerian Students Internatitional Film Festival in 2006 and "Mummy Lagos" also won Best Film at the Nigerian Field Society Awards organised by the German Cultural Centre, Goethe Institut, in Lagos.

In 2006 he was profiled by the influential UK based BFM magazine as the youngest film director in Nigeria.

Kenneth has worked with the BBC World Service Trust for over a year and has directed about eleven episodes of their highly quality TV drama "Wetin Dey" which was recently presented at the International Emmy World Television Festival in New York City. He has also worked with Communicating For Change as an Associate Producer on Bayelsian Silhouettes- a series of seven short films on HIV/AIDS.

Kenneth has attended several film festivals and workshop and is working on his first feature film called "My Culture".