Monthly Archives August 2013

Words: Danson John

Richard Rodgers Onyango a.k.a Richie Roja is the next big host. He emerged top from a list of 53 contestants angling for a stint as “The Next Big Host” of a yet to be revealed Spielworks media production. Roja does not hail from the city as first impression would suggest but from out to the west of Kenya in the rural Siaya County.
“I was a typical shao {rural} boy in the big city but well educated though” laughs Rodger.
His eloquence and speech shine through. His unhesitant and witty response to questions reveals a confident personality who talks from deep insight.
For his O-level he attended Ngere High School. He then advanced to study law at the Kenya School of Professional Studies which he dropped out saying it was not interesting. He then went to study Mass Communications graduating with a diploma in August 2012 at the Multi Media University.
The journey
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On 19st August 2013, we had the privilege of having the NTV crew visit our Sumu La Penzi set. They interacted with our crew and some of the actors present and recorded behind the scenes clips for the show.
The following day, on 20th August 2013, Avril Nyambura aka “Avril” who plays Eva and Davidson Ngibuini better known as “DNG” who plays Tash alongside the director of the show, Caroline Odongo were interviewed on AM Live by Sheila Mwanyigha.
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Meet women in business who work hard and smart turning small businesses into great enterprises
Simple Alliance, Kenya Limited

Women in business is a growing concept in Kenya and when it happens that the woman in question is a young woman under 40, a lot of hard work must have been put in to achieve success. Meet Dorothy Gituba who runs the greatest of production companies and attributes this to her expertise in raising funds and the realisation that in addition to investing in ideas we need to invest in people. “I learnt from the get go that companies invest in people not only ideas and so I learnt how to convince people by just being myself” she told Edward Kwach and Angela Angwenyi on Easy FM and hers is a story of passion and a dream for great opportunities.

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By Mwikali Lati
Posted Thursday, August 1 2013 at 16:57

As the Kenyan film industry grows, it calls for specialisation and no one knows this first hand than Ndanu Kilonzo, the head of production at Speilworks.

“When I first met Dorothy [the founder of Speilworks] in 2009, we were just the two of us. We would come up with the stories, write the scripts, do the editing — I mean we did a lot. Now, we have 60 people doing what we used to do,” she says. Between the two of them, they were able to produce the Katiba series, Lies that Bind and Block D — the last two still in production.

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The TOP 5 just arrived and to receive them was Spielworks Media CEO Dorothy Ghettuba. Lets see how they perform tonight, did i mention they are gonna face 3 Judges.

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