CAPTURED PLANET: KENYA

In 2018 I joined Captured Planet for a long expedition across Kenya. Together we created three on-the-road short docs meeting the rural Kenyan communities of the Samburu, the Loita Masai and the Mijikenda.

Captured Planet is a media company founded by a team of horticulturists and botanists, focusing on telling stories of the natural world and how human communities interact with the ecologies they belong to, highlighting the importance of indigenous knowledge in the discourse of shaping strategies to tackle the climate crisis at a global level.

The project has been developed and activated in collaboration with The National Museum of Kenya.

The films investigates the impact of climate change on communities livelihood and their struggle to keep protecting the pristine forests they inhabit.

How can we sustainably grow as communities, while safeguarding the environments from which we depend?

“Biodiversity conservation may only succeed when traditional community and practices are given a say in forest management, because the modern measures will attempt to take user rights and community responsibilities of conversation to external people, people who have no attachment to the forest.”

“There’s a big need to fill the gap of documenting the indigenous knowledge in relation to conservation. Maasai cultural practices and individual plant uses by the community. We can still use that knowledge for developing purposes.” (Charles Saitabau – elder from Loita Maasai)

CREDITS

DIRECTOR-CAMERA-EDIT-NARRATION Giorgio Bosisio
CLIENT Captured Planet Ltd
PRODUCER Captured Planet & National Museum of Kenya

TECH SPECS

>SHORT DOC<

PRODUCTION YEAR 2019
COUNTRY UK, Kenya
RUNNING TIME 13m:32s / 11m:27s / 8m:45s
LANGUAGES Swaili, English, Masai
SUBTITLES English