DIRECTOR of IN MY GENES-FILM
About the Director
 Creator/Director/Editor/ProducerLupita Nyong’o was born in Mexico, raised in Kenya and educated partly in the United States of America. She has worked on the production teams of critically acclaimed films including The Constant Gardener (2005) directed by Fernando Mereilles and The Namesake (2006) directed by Mira Nair. She graduated from a Film & Theatre Studies undergraduate program at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Nyong’o’s debut feature-length film was creating, producing, directing and editing IN MY GENES her final thesis project at Hampshire college, where she graduated in 2007. IN MY GENES addresses the personal and societal challenges that people with albinism face as members of one of the most hyper-visible and misunderstood minority groups of Kenya's predominantly black society through the experiences of eight individuals from different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. |
LUPITA's ACTING ROLE as AYIRA in MTV's SHUGA
Meet Ayira
http://mtvshuga.com/cast/ayira/
What is Shuga?
Set in Nairobi, Kenya, and back for a hotly anticipated second series, Shuga is a hard-hitting drama that follows the lives, loves and ambitions of a group of young people whose bright lives and fabulous futures are balanced on a knife edge due to their love of living dangerously.
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