Kenya

Khaliyesa Barbara Minishi begun her career in 2003 in Fashion & Editorial photography and expanded her practice into the realms of film production design, directing and experimental sound.  She won an Africa Movie Award for Art Direction in notable Kenyan film, Nairobi Half Life and was Nairobi Unit Art Director, for Netflix Series Sense 8, season 1. In 2022 she wrote and directed her first immersive 360 immersive short film, Utawala.
Her fiction directorial short film debut, “Inheritance”, about a young woman reclaiming her voice had its Kenyan premiere in 2024 and will be travelling globally in 2025.

Filmography

Inheritance (2024)