September • 2022
Nyasha was easy to work with and went above and beyond to help us get great footage for the project.
Nyasha K.
Nairobi County, Kenya
2 reviews$500 - $800 / Day
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Nyasha Kadandara is a Zimbabwean-born, award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker based in East Africa. In a previous life, Nyasha crunched numbers as a financial consultant, but now she spends her days producing creative works in various parts of Africa. Nyasha's work has covered a broad spectrum of subjects including breaking news, criminal justice, education, conflict and sport. Nyasha holds a Bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Cape Town and a Master of Science degree in journalism and documentary filmmaking from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She directed the award-winning documentary ‘Through the Fire’ which premiered at DOC NYC film festival in 2015. She is also the winner of the 2016 NBC Sports film contest ‘Cptr’d’ for her short documentary ‘Queens & Knights’. Nyasha has wide range of experience from producing news segments to documentary NBC Sports, Al Jazeera English, PBS, BBC, ZDF and EPIX. Nyasha is available for commission across the African continent.
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Nuba Reports -- Pregnancy in War: Women at Risk in the Nuba Mountains
How do women in the Nuba Mountains give birth in a region with only five doctors and two fully functioning hospitals for roughly one million people?
- Video Editor - News
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Field Producer
Produced for BBC World News
BBC World News - Through the Fire
For New Yorker Luis DeJesus, drug rehabilitation is just the beginning. Coming from a family where abuse and neglect stretches back through the generations, his recovery hinges on addressing the demons of his past. Can he and his family break a cycle of poverty, violence and despair?
- Reporter / Journalist
- Documentary DP
- Video Editor - News
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
Produced for Al Jazeera English - Digital
Pray for peace in South Sudan
Easter celebrations in South Sudan remain centred around prayer for forgiveness and restoration.
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Field Producer
Produced for BBC
Sex and the Sugar Daddy
In Kenya, more and more young women are using sugar daddies to fund a lifestyle worth posting on social media. Transactional sex was once driven by poverty, says film-maker Nyasha Kadandara. But now, increasingly, it's driven by vanity.
- Documentary DP
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Field Producer
- Creative Director
Produced for Global Voices
Global Voices -- Not Without a Fight: The Battle for Affordable Housing in Cape Town
Gentrification is often seen as a problem facing developed cities in the western of the developed world, but arguably, in one of the most beautiful and affluent cities in Africa, a housing war is raging.
- Reporter / Journalist
- Documentary DP
- Video Editor - Documentary
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
4.0 Produced for AJPlus
9-Year-Old Starts Foundation to Help Schools
9-Year-Old Starts Foundation to Help Schools
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
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