100 DAYS:
Producer : Eric Kabera
Director/ Director: Nick Hughes
NICK HUGHES, born 1961, worked fourteen years as a cameraman for the BBC and witnessed the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
The first Rwandan produced feature film that thematises the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994. Young Josette loses her brother in the massacres and hides in a church, allegedly protected by UN forces. She thus relies on the local priest’s protection, however he exacts a high price.
The Award winning film was shot on location with Rwandan amateur actors, and convey the events, partly as Nick Hughes himself as a cameraman witnessed, partly obtained through witness statements from survivors.
Synopsis:
A local Hutu official is persuaded to implement the government's policy against the Tutsi: To completely wipe them out. Josette, a beautiful young Tutsi girl struggles to survive the killing by taking refuge in a church, supposedly protected by the UNO forces. Meanwhile, Josette's brother is hunted down and murdered and her boyfriend rescued by the rebels. But the Hutu Catholic priest betrays Josette's family and only agrees to spare her life is to submit to the nightly violations. By the time she is reunited with her boyfriend, neither of them can face the brutal reality of their situation: she is pregnant and bears the priest's child, which she immediately abandons. 100 Days was shot in Kibuye, the beautiful landscape had been the back drop to some of the worst atrocities in 1994. In Kibuye Church, the site of an actual massacre, Rwanda actors played killers and victims that were only too familiar to them.
Africa United
90 Mins:
Director : Debs Gardner:
Produced by Eric Kabera, Mark Blaney,Jackie Shepard
Africa United is a road movie about five children who travel 3,000 miles to reach the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Their backgrounds are as diverse as the continent – Fabrice, a middle-class football protégé; Dudu, a Rwandan Aids orphan with a true sense of determination; Beatrice, his God-loving and gentle little sister; Celeste, a proud teenage sex worker; and Foreman George, a traumatized former child soldier from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The early screenings have seen rapturous acclaim for the performances, and at the Toronto Film Festival it won a standing ovation.
Keepers of Memory: 54 Mins.
By Eric Kabera
Producer / Director.
A haunting documentary film featuring Rwandan Tutsi survivors, the keepers of the memory sacred sites where they witnessed their loved one brutally murdered. This documentary film features survivors and perpetrators sitting side by side.
The film premiered at Toronto and also won many accolades.
Intore: 64 Mins.
Eric Kabera
Producer/ Director
The film that tells the story of Rwanda 25 years after the Genocide committed against the Tutsi.
This stirring documentary offers an inspiring look at how Rwanda is overcoming its tragic history by reclaiming its identity through music, dance, and the resilience of a new generation.
Through My Eyes:44 Mins
Eric Kabera
Producer / co-director
Tells the story of Rwandan youth on how to move on using the Arts and culture as way forward to bring a last peace building mechanism in the country.
An award winning film and Unicef labeled it as an inspiring and touching film from the youth of Rwanda rebuilding their lives.