Kenya

Jim Chuchu is a filmmaker, musician and visual artist living and working in Nairobi, Kenya. Chuchu’s photographs debuted in the exhibition, Precarious Imaging: Visibility and Media surrounding African Queerness. at RAW Material Company, a space for art and culture in Dakar, part of Dak’Art 2014. His photography and video series have since exhibited at the Royal Pavilion and Museums, Guggenheim Bilbao, the Vitra Design Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Johannesburg Art Fair and the 1:54 New York and London art fairs, and form part of the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. In 2014, Jim co-founded the Nest Collective — a multidisciplinary art collective based in Nairobi, Kenya that has created works in film, music, fashion, visual arts and literature such as the critically-acclaimed queer anthology film Stories of Our Lives, which has so far screened in over 80 countries and won numerous awards such as the Jury Prize at the 2015 Berlinale Teddy Awards. Since then, Jim has continued to direct films, web and TV series such as Tuko Macho, a first-of-its-kind interactive crime web series created and produced by the Nest Collective and interactive virtual reality short film Let This Be A Warning. Tuko Macho had its international premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival under the Primetime program, a showcase of the best international television, and Let This Be A Warning premiered at the Berlinale European Film Market and has since screened at the World VR Forum, Re:Publica and Encounters festivals. Jim co-founded the HEVA Fund in 2015, an East African creative business fund based in Kenya that invests in the creative economy sector in the East African region. Biography Source

Filmography

Homecoming (2013)
Dinka Translation (2013)
Urban Hunter (2013)
Stories of Our Lives (2014)
To Catch A Dream (2015)
Tuko Macho (2016)
Let This Be A Warning (2017)
We Need Prayers (2018)
Tapi! (2020)