Kivu Ruhorahoza, is a screenwriter, director and producer from Rwanda. His first feature film, Grey Matter got a Jury Special Mention for Best Emerging Filmmaker and won the Best Actor award at the 2011 TriBeCa Film Festival. The film went on to win Grand Prize at the Tübingen French Film Festival, Best Director and Signis Award at the Cordoba African Film Festival, Jury Prize at the Khouribga African Film Festival, and several others.
Kivu was a 2012 Rolex Mentor and Protégé nominee. Kivu's work has been showcased at prestigious museums such as the MoMA in New York, the ICA in London, the Tate Modern (as part of Olafur Eliason's Little Sun project) and at universities including the Bayreuth University, King's College, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Michigan, etc. In 2012, Kivu Ruhorahoza's project Jomo was a Hubert Bals Fund development grantee and selected for the Atelier Cinemas du Monde selection at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The project had also been part of the 2012 CineMart Rotterdam, and Boost Binger Film Lab for script advisory by Molly Stensgaard (editor of all Lars von Trier films since The Idiots except for Antechrist).
In 2014, Kivu embarked on Things of the Aimless Wanderer which he wrote, produced, shot and directed. Things of the Aimless Wanderer had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015. Kivu Ruhorahoza has taught directing and screenwriting workshops for various organizations including the Goethe Institut, Mira Nair's Maisha Film Lab, Almond Tree Films, Unicef and has served as a mentor for TriBeCa Film Institute for young underprivileged aspiring filmmakers from New York.
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