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.
Education
Kamya has a
BSc
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in
architecture
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and
urban design
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and a
MA in
TV documentary
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from
Goldsmiths College
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, London.
Career
Kamya has won over 10 awards internationally and has worked in television in London before setting up a production house in
Kampala
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, IVAD International.
Kamya's debut feature film, ''
Imani'' (2010), opened at the 2010
Berlin Film Festival
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,
where it was nominated for Best First Feature. ''Chips and Liver Girls'', codirected with Danish director
Boris Benjamin Bertram in 2010, was a short film about young Ugandan women and "the men who pay for their studies".
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
External links
*
1974 births
Living people
Ugandan film directors
Ugandan women film directors
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