{{A Kenyan is among five film-makers who will launch their short stories to highlight issues affecting them and their communities at the Commonwealth Shorts in New Zealand next week.}}<\/p>\n
The Shorts are a capacity building scheme to give emerging writers \/directors the opportunity to make a film on the theme of relationships.<\/p>\n
The one documentary and four dramas explore migration, indigenous rights and same-sex relationships from New Zealand, Kenya, Bahamas, Barbados, and Canada.<\/p>\n
Kenya\u2019s offering to this event on February 26 is titled New Year\u2019s Eve by Wanjiru Kairu, who describes the \u2018short\u2019 as a story of a married man who struggles to come out of a life of deceit and risks losing true love.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese films are the result of many months\u2019 hard work by five emerging film-makers from across the Commonwealth. As well as being accomplished pieces in their own right, each film highlights an important issue which affects its writer and their community in some way. <\/p>\n
Commonwealth Writers is excited to be able to share these films internationally to bring these new voices to a wider audience,\u201d said Lucy Hannah, Programme Manager, Commonwealth Foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout this journey, I re-learned how to develop, research, and write a universal story with a deep controversial issue. <\/p>\n
The insights I\u2019ve gained are excellent and the team\u2019s dedication to the task at hand, particularly through some testing moments, was second to none,\u201d expresses Kairu.<\/p>\n
The launch of Commonwealth Shorts takes place at Academy Cinemas in Auckland, New Zealand, in association with Documentary NZ Trust and with support from the New Zealand Film Commission.<\/p>\n
The screening marks the end of the 2012 Commonwealth Shorts project and follows a film production lab in Auckland for the five international film-makers along with seven local writers\/directors from the Pacific region.<\/p>\n
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