Spotlighting Women behind the Camera

Over at Africa Report:

Wanuri Kahiu

Female directors are achieving increasing success in the African film industry 
but those at the forefront want to be recognised for their skills, not their gender...Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu becomes very animated when she talks about Kathryn Bigelow’s best director Oscar this year for Hurt Locker – the first time a woman has won that award. “It’s ridiculous we had to wait this long. But even Kathryn Bigelow herself said she’d much rather be appreciated as a filmmaker than as a woman filmmaker.”