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Timoth Conrad Kachumia (born April 18, 1988) is an award winning Tanzanian film director, screenwriter, film editor and producer. He is best known for his films Mdundiko, Dogo Masai and Sema. He was also a production assistant in a film Altitude (2017). Timoth Conrad is also a founder of The Scene Festival based in Washington DC United States and Timamu movies Prodution. In his speech on May 13 2016, Minister of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports Mr Nape Nnauye mentioned Timoth Conrad Kachumia as one of the artists who represent well the nation through his films.

Early life and education
Timoth was born on 18 April 1988 in Morogoro, Tanzania. The second born of his mother Joyce Samuel Ngowi's three children, and the first born of his father Conrad Kachumia's five children. He had his primary education at Mchikichini Primary School in Morogoro, he also had secondary education at Morogoro Secondary School before he and his family moved to Dar es salaam when he was 17. In the year 2017 he joined Recording Radio Film Connection & CASA Schools in Los Angeles, California.

Career
Before his success, he produced his first feature-length film, Mdundiko (2014), which won "Best Narrative Feature Film" at the Silicon Valley African Film Festival 2013 in the United States of America. Dogo Masai (2014), which won "Special Mention Narrative Feature" at the Silicon Valley African Film Festival 2014 in the United States of America. Then he directed his second film, Single Zero (2015), which also won "Best Narrative Feature Film" at the Silicon Valley African Film Festival in 2015 United States of America.

In 2016 Timoth made another film, Bahati which won 'Best East African Film' at International Festival of Cinema and Audiovisual of Burundi. In 2017 Timoth was a part of a production crew as 'production assistant' on the film Altitude (2017) featured famous Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren and American actress Denise Richards. In 2018 Timoth made his horror film, Sema (2018), which won 2 awards "Best Director" and "Most viewed feature film" at The African Film Festival in the United States of America. Sema movie is also nominated for "Best East African Film" at Zanzibar International Film Festival in 2019 and Best Best Indigenous Language Movie/TV Series in Swahili at Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards in 2020.