Caroline Kamya

Caroline Kamya (born 1974) is a British Ugandan film director and producer.

Early life

Kamya was born and raised in Uganda, Kenya and the U.K,[1]

Education

Kamya has a BSc in Architecture and Urban design and an MA in TV Documentary from Goldsmiths College.

Career

Kamya has won over 10 awards internationally and has worked in television in London before setting up a production house in Kampala, IVAD International.[2]

Kamya's debut feature film, Imani (2010), opened at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival,[3] where it was nominated for Best First Feature. Chips and Liver Girls, codirected with Danish director Boris Bertram in 2010, was a short film about young Ugandan women and "the men who pay for their studies".[4] The short film Fire Fly (2011) was shot in China.

Filmography
  • Chips and Liver Girls (short), 2011
  • Imani, 2010
  • Fire Fly (short), 2011
  • The Peace Between 2019

References
  1. Mette Hjort; Ursula Lindqvist (2016). A Companion to Nordic Cinema. John Wiley & Sons. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-118-47528-7.
  2. Caroline Kamya at IMDb
  3. Caroline Kamya, International Film Festival Rotterdam.
  4. Rob Stone; Paul Cooke; Stephanie Dennison (2017). The Routledge Companion to World Cinema. Taylor & Francis. p. 988. ISBN 978-1-317-42058-3.
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