Английская Википедия:Dorothy Ghettuba

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Orphan Шаблон:Infobox person Dorothy Ghettuba (born 1979)[1] is a Kenyan Film and TV entrepreneur. She is currently the Director, Original Series for Africa at Netflix[2] She is a co-founder of the Nairobi-based Spielworks Media, an African production company launched in 2009.[3] In 2016, she was named among C. Hub magazine's 100 most influential creative personalities.[4] She is also a 2016 Archbishop Tutu Fellow with the African Leadership Institute.[5]

Biography

Born and raised in Kenya,[6] Ghettuba studied communications and political science at Andrews University in Michigan, USA. After her graduation, she spent several years living in Canada, where she worked for a period with a venture capital fund.[7] She returned to Kenya shortly after her thirtieth birthday.[8] Ghettuba claims that her original passion was acting, but when she was not selected for roles, she turned to the production side of filmmaking.[9]

She quit her job at a venture capital firm in Canada to pursue her passion in filmmaking.[10] Gettuba-Pala joined a local TV show as a producer before moving on to establish Spielworks Media, a local entertainment production and content creation company for television and digital platforms operating in East and Central Africa.[11] Ghettuba-Pala is also the co-founder of Keja TV, a social media channel on Facebook and YouTube.[12] Ghettuba-Pala is dedicated to developing creative talent and quality talent and as such has won many accolades for 18 television shows, 20 web shows and over 40 movies.[13] Some of her renown projects include a popular Kiswahili TV show, Penzi la Sumu. Other films that she has produced are Lies that Bind, Saints and Higher Learning[14]. The film mogul landed a job at Netflix as manager international originals in March 2019[15] and was also appointed by the Kenyan government as chairperson Kenya Film Commission Board in May 2019.[16] Ghettuba Pala is married to a Kenyan journalist Oyunga.

Spielworks Media

She launched Spielworks Media in 2009.[17] She claims that her dream is to turn the company into an African version of the US motion picture studio Universal Pictures.[18]

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