Kivu ruhorahoza biography
- Born in Kigali on December 6, 1982, Kivu entered the film career working in 2004 as a production assistant for Eric Kabera, a Rwandan producer.
- Kivu Ruhorahoza is a Rwandese film director, writer and producer.
- Kivu Ruhorahoza is known for Grey Matter (2011), Europa: Based on a True Story (2019) and Things of the Aimless Wanderer (2015).
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The McMillan-Stewart Fellowship: Kivu Ruhorahoza
Kivu Ruhorahoza is one of the most important filmmakers of the contemporary generation of African filmmakers and, arguably, the single most significant director in the history of Rwandan cinema. He partakes of an African cinema that is in a process of profound renewal, one that is no longer that of the founding fathers and mothers, but a twenty-first century cinema that is at once confidently globalized and seeks to bring out the specificities of an African experience as well as foreground the possibilities and indispensability of African readings of the contemporary world. Indeed, the richness of his cinematic discourse entails being able to say something about Africa, affirming the right to say something about the world as viewed from Africa, as well as being able to say something about the people who elect to say something about Africa and the world.
This desire to “speak” the world through cinema, and the place of Africa within it, is partly underwritten by the fact that, like most African filmmakers, he
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02 Mar Kivu Ruhorahoza
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Kivu Ruhorahoza, 30, is a filmmaker and writer from Rwanda. Kivu’s experimental film work has been featured at the London Tate Modern (part of Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun project), the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and several other prestigious venues across the world. His shorts films have won prestigious awards including the City of Venice Prize at the Milan African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival, Best African Short and the Montréal Vues d’Afrique Festival. At its World Premiere, Kivu’s feature film *Grey Matter*got a Jury Special Mention for Best Emerging Filmmaker and won the Best Actor award at the prestigious TriBeCa Film Festival. The film went on to win Best Director and Signis Award at the Cordoba African Film Festival,
Jury Prize at the Khouribga African Film Festival, Grand Prize at the Tübingen French Film Festival and several other awards.
Kivu Ruhorahoza was a 2012 Rolex Mentor and Protégé nominee, sectio
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Kivu Ruhorahoza Awarded 2022-23 McMillan-Stewart Fellowship in Distinguished Filmmaking
The Film Study Center is pleased to announce that Rwandan filmmaker Kivu Ruhorahoza has been selected as the 2022-23 McMillan-Stewart Fellow in Distinguished Filmmaking. The McMillan-Stewart Fellow is hosted by the Film Study Center in collaboration with the Harvard Film Archive. This year, with additional support from the McMillan-Stewart Foundation, The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, and the Division of Arts & Humanities, Ruhorahoza will be in residence at the FSC and the Hutchins Center for the entire spring semester with a retrospective of his films screening at the Harvard Film Archive.
Kivu Ruhorahoza is one of the most important filmmakers of the contemporary generation of African filmmakers and, arguably, the single most significant director in the history of Rwandan cinema. He partakes of an African cinema that is in a process of profound renewal, one that is no longer that of the founding fathers and mothers, indeed, a twenty-first century cinema, t
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