The Rwanda film industry is gradually growing bigger and seductive to the outside world and this is evident to Philippe Van Leew (remember him in Avenir) ‘longing to come back this April to see if he could produce another film about reconciliation and justice of the perpetrators.
Simon Iyarwema a young talented actor and dancer and the face behind lots of Rwanda films says there is something cooking.
Simon Iyarwema is a Rwandan was born and raised in Kenya. He returned to Rwanda on 8th January 1998 and completed college at Lycee de Kigali. He is an actor and a contemporary dancer with Mashirika creative and performing Arts group.
Besides that he has done film casting as an assistant director, including; sometimes in April, shooting dogs, shake hands with the devil, operation Turqouise, Avenir with Philippe Van Leew, Kinyarwanda, the last king of Scotland which portrays Ugandan’s former president Idi Amin and lots of more.
According to Iyarwema, Rwanda’s film industry is something that grows day after day and they keep on getting more ideas to boast it to the outside world, “We even have a filming school set up by Eric Kabera.”
I was so lucky to be trained by Lavra moreal the first French woman who came to participate in ‘sometimes in April’ the first movie.
She inspired me so much into filming and acting and I took the whole idea passionately. Iyarwema is a drummer, actor, dancer and casts in movies.
We are hoping to extend the movie industry, after home it will go international, he said where there is market is where we take the filming he added.
The movies are acted in various languages namely English, French, Kinyarwanda and Swahili- among others. He says the sky is the limit in next ten years.
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