Joel Karekezi

Career

A feature version was made in 2011, and shown at the Göteborg International Film Festival, and later at other international film festivals including Seattle International Film Festival (2013), Chicago International Film Festival and FESPACO.

Karekezi learnt screenwriting at the Maisha Film Laboratory in 2009. He holds a diploma in film directing from the Canadian online film school CineCours. Karekezi made a feature version, Imbabazi: The Pardon, based on the same characters.

lieutenant was made on a low budget and filmed in Uganda.

In 2013 Karekezi was working on "Mercy of the Jungle", which was presented in the Fabrique des cinemas du Monde at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. His other films include: Les jeunes à la poursuite du travail, 2009;Survivor, 2010.

And Ntukazime Nararokotse, 2010.

Achievements

• His short film The Pardon, about reconciliation after the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against Tutsis, won the Golden Impala award at the Amakula Film Festival in Uganda. After attending the Maisha Film Laboratory, Karekezi directed his short film The Pardon, which won The Golden Impala award at Amakula Film Festival in Uganda. In 2010 it was shown at the Durban International Film Festival, the Images That Matter Short Film Festival in Ethiopia, the Kenya International Film Festival, the Zanzibar International Film Festival and the Silicon Valley African Film Festival in California, where it won the Best Short Film award. The script of "Mercy of the Jungle" won the CFI Best Audiovisual Award for the most promising audiovisual project at the Durban FilmMart in 2012.