Caroline Kamya

Caroline Kamya is an award-winning filmmaker with a BSc in Architecture and Urban design and an MA in TV Documentary from Goldsmiths College (University of London). She gained valuable experience working in TV in London for several years working her way from runner to AD and working at the BBC. In 2004 she set up a company office in Kampala, Uganda with the intention to make her first feature film after a few years. iVAD International is now one of the most innovative drama production house in Uganda. Caroline attended various film labs including the Maisha Film Lab,Berlinale Talent Campus, DOX Lab, Durban Talent Campus and most recently Binger. Caroline also set up a not for profit training arm of IVAD to provide TV training to young people in Uganda Arts and Media Academy. Caroline works as a director of fiction and doc films plus"cross genre" films collaborating with local and international co producers. IMANI is her debut feature film opened at the Berlinale International Film Festival 2010 were it was nominated for "Best First Feature" and has since traveled the world gaining several international awards so far. Caroline then completed two further films "Chips and Liver Girls" shot in Uganda and "Fire Fly" shot in China commissioned by The Danish Film Institute and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. She has a T.V obs doc series, two fiction features and one feature documentary in the development stages. Most recently Caroline has won an award and funding from DOCUBOX at the Durban Film Market 2014 towards the feature documentary she is working on with Agnes called - "In Search of African Duende: The Uganda Flamenco Project". In addition her second feature has been invited to Locarno 2014.