Wanjeri Gakuru
name
Wanjeri Gakuru
profession
writer & director
country
Kenya
biography
Wanjeri Gakuru is a journalist, essayist and filmmaker. She co-wrote award-winning feature film, SUPA MODO (2018) which accrued 44 awards and nominations internationally and Kenya’s first Netflix TV series, COUNTRY QUEEN. Wanjeri is the Partnerships Director of African film collective, Rogue Film Society and has worked as a curator on various literary, film and art projects including Love Letters to Cinema (2022) and Mengi Mengi Film Club (2022).
prizes / labs
website
social media
Transaction
working title
Transaction
project status
in development
logline / short synopsis
Tired of being overlooked all her life, WAKS, a plump, overcontrolling Nairobi girl, hires a male sex worker to deflower her on the night of her 19th birthday.
prizes
Interfilms Script Pitch 2022 – special mention