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“We’re making films for the people”, says Tanzania’s Amil Shivji of his latest film ’Last Cow’

“Tanzania is little known within the global screen sector but I’d like to believe we still pack a punch,” says Amil Shivji, a filmmaker and producer with his Dar es Salaam-based Kijiweni Productions, who is partly responsible for boosting the country’s international reputation.

Shivji broke onto the international scene in 2013 with the short film Shoeshine about a young boy whose job cleaning shoes allows him to observe life on the streets of Dar es Salaam. The film, which Shivji wrote and directed, screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and was nominated for the Young African Filmmaker’s Award (YAFMA) at the 21st Afrika Film Festival in Belgium.

Now Shivji is at the 8th Atlas Workshops, the annual industry incubator offshoot of the Marrakech International Film Festival, with his second feature film, Last Cow, which is in development.

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