PISTACHIOS – Kakenya from POCKO on Vimeo.
This is an animation for Vital Voices, an organisation working globally for women’s independence. This film tells the childhood story of Kakenya Ntaiya, a Masai woman who negotiated herself out of an arranged marriage and convinced her village to collect money for her to study in the USA. It wasn’t easy for Kakenya to follow up here passion because she first had to find a way of negotiating herself out of an arranged marriage and on-top of that convince her village to collect money for her to go to college. Having achieved all this, she returned to her village and built a girls’ school there.
Directed by Aaron Kisner and Pistachios. Music by Dan Radlauer. Produced by Blacklist. via african digital art
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~Benjamin Franklin
