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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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?
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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.
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ZDF Heute+ -- The forgotten war in Nuba
Since the 1980s, Sudan has been waging a civil war: the Nuba rebels are fighting the government for the independence of Southern Sudan. A conflict that seems almost forgotten. We meet two women who are working to tackle the health care system in Nuba.
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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?
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Produced for NBC Sports
NBC Sports -- Queens & Knights
'Queens & Knights', is a rousing, funny and compelling story of how an inclusive Rugby team challenges perceptions of masculinity and athleticism through camaraderie and acceptance.
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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.
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