Nairobi, Kenya: Open Air Screenings of Togetherness Supreme in Kibera Slums

From the Open Air Cinema archive. Originally published in 2010. Preserved as a historical record; some linked partner pages from that time are no longer online.

Open Air Community Screenings

In cooperation with FilmAid International and with funding from the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Nairobi, the Hot Sun Foundation is organizing outdoor community screenings of Togetherness Supreme in Africa’s largest slum. The equipment used for these screenings includes a 20’ inflatable movie screen and projector donated to FilmAid International by Open Air Cinema. For more information about these screenings, visit the Hot Sun Foundation, or read the summary below.

The Hot Sun Foundation

Social transformation through media and art is the vision of the Hot Sun Foundation. Their mission is to educate, develop talents, and train youth and children from the slums so that they can tell their own stories. They want those stories to travel far to inspire other slum dwellers around the globe, to create role models and leaders, and to show that media and art can enable slum dwellers to reshape their lives and bring about social transformation.

Togetherness Supreme

Togetherness Supreme is the story of Kamau, an artist; Otieno, a hustler; and Alice, a preacher’s daughter, with whom both Kamau and Otieno fall in love. All three live in Kibera, East Africa’s largest slum, home to a million people in Nairobi, Kenya. All three are from different tribes but are searching for tribal unity. During the 2007 Kenyan presidential elections, their community is torn apart by violence and conflicting tribal loyalties. Their story, set against a backdrop of tyranny, is a beacon of hope in an unjust world.