Smoke Jumpers
Synopsis
Details
- Year
- 2023
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running time
- 4 min
- Format
- Digital
- Director
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Daniel Muchina
- Producer
- Wangechi Ngugi
- Executive Producer
- Invisible Dust
- Editor
- Daniel Muchina
- Screenwriter
- Daniel Muchina
- Director of Photography
- Daniel Muchina
- Sound
- rPh
- Composer
- rPh
- Models
- Adukita Peters, Adhar Arop, Mauryne Theo
- Stylist
- Bryan Emry
- Make up Artist
- John Mungai
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Kenya, UK co-production
A Monsoons Creative Studio (KE) production. Project curated by Invisible Dust (UK) in collaboration with University College London Institute for Sustainable Resources [ISR] (UK) and funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s Climate Compatible Growth programme [CCG] (UK)
Monsoons Creative Studio
Sales Company
Monsoons Creative Studio
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