Our Land, Our Freedom
When legendary leader Dedan Kimathi of the Kenyan Land and Freedom Army, the Mau Mau Rebellion, was hanged by the British authorities in 1957 for possession of firearms, they dumped his body at an unknown location. Now, his daughter Wanjugu Kimathi follows in her mother’s footsteps to look for her father’s remains. Kimathi's search becomes an investigation into British colonial atrocities including concentration camps and land theft that left hundreds of thousands of Kenyans destitute. As her mission expands, she transforms into a powerful advocate championing justice and land resettlement for those dispossessed. Along the way she meets Mau Mau veterans, families of others who lost their land and inspiring activists. Our Land, Our Freedom is her story, a painful but also hopeful chapter in postcolonial history.
Meena Nanji
Meena Nanji is an award-winning filmmaker who has produced, written and directed independent documentaries, experimental videos and short narratives that have screened at international film festivals and got broadcasted on global television. She has programmed film- and video festivals, guest lectured at UC Santa Barbara and Otis Parsons School of Art and Design and is the co-founder of GlobalGirl Media, a non-profit organization that trains girls from underrepresented communities of the world in digital media and citizen journalism. Meena is now working on a feature documentary about the legacy of colonialism in Kenya and the ongoing struggle for land.
Zippy Kimundu
Zippy is an award-winning Kenyan Filmmaker who has been working in the film and television industry across continents as a director and editor for over a decade. She co-directed a short documentary, A Fork, A Spoon and A Knight with Mira Nair for Tribeca Film Institute’s ‘Power of Word Series’, and was the assistant editor on the Disney film Queen of Katwe. Zippy holds a masters in Fine Arts from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a film educator for under represented communities at I’ll Tell You My Story, who give storytelling workshops in Africa for teenage refugee girls. Besides this, she is the founder of Afro Films International, a women-led film and TV production company and creative collective based in Nairobi and Kilifi, Kenya, and is currently working to ignite political consciousness, and action, across continents. Her short films have screened internationally and she continues to create both fiction and non-fiction content globally.
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