From Nairobi Now’s friend Rachid:
I want to recommend a wonderful short film my good friend Robbie Bresson directs that is online at www.simiyusamurai.com. A tale of a young Kenyan who is orphaned by the tsunami in Japan, he returns home to live with his grandmother and experiences the adventure of a karate kid in Kenya. check it out.
The project is an ingenious attempt at financing film via sms/mpesa. Voters can choose via their phones to vote on a scenario they would like to see in part 2. thus funding the next part of the film. Each text (you have to be in Kenya for it to count) costs 50 or 60 shillings of which 20 goes to the production of part 2.
Enjoy!
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