About Me IV
About Us
Get to Know Us
We are storytellers, rememberers, and rethinkers!
As Africans, we are building a world that honours who we are and who we have been, and that allows us to become who we can be. We tell the stories that help us reimagine the African narrative, and see ourselves as we are.
Organizational and Personal Capacity Statement
Baruu Collective is a multidisciplinary arts production company and creative agency, based between Kilifi and Nairobi, Kenya. We make work for film, TV, live installations, and other multimedia platforms. Walking with our clients through the entire journey of production, we aim to remember and document our past and present, reimagine and learn from it, and then forge new narrative possibilities for Africa and our clients.
Our Capabilities
Baruu collective and its team of skilled producers, directors and script writers together with specialist consultants are able to offer comprehensive production services and solutions from the initial per-production stage to the project handover of final approved works.
Baruu collective has been contracted in a wide range of projects to render services that include:
Researching, Scripting, Story Boarding, Budgeting, Location Scouting, Scheduling, Producing & Directing, Cinematography, Photography, Social Media Management, Search Engine Optimisation, Lighting, Sound Recording, Continuity & D.I.T, Wardrobe, Make-up, Voice-over Recording, Music Scoring, Event Curation, Mural Painting, Video & Photo Editing and Colour Grading.
Awards
Kitale Film Week 2023
Winner, Best Documentary
Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards 2022
Winner, Best Documentary
Kalasha International Film & TV Awards 2021
Winner, Best Original Score
Kalasha International Film Festival 2021
Nominee, Best Short Film, Best Sound Score
Zanzibar International Film Festival 2021
Winner, Ousmane Sembene Prize
Africa Movie Academy Awards 2020
Nominee, Best Documentary
Los Angeles Cinematography Awards 2020
Winner, Best Short Documentary
Silicon Valley African Film Festival 2020
Official Selection
Kalasha International Film & TV Awards 2020
Nominee, Best Documentary
Kalasha International Film & TV Awards 2019
Winner,Best Diaspora Production
Kalasha International Film & TV Market 2018
Winner, Best Pitch
Zanzibar International Film Festival 2018
Nominee, Best TV Show
Our Mission
To create wholesome, engaging and high quality content.
To work with our clients at every point of the project’s life-cycle, taking it from ideas to a reality;
To manage and co-ordinate the project efficiently, such that our client’s resources are enough to make their dream come true;
To understand the client’s requirements, and interpret them within the usual constraints – social, economic, cultural and time conscious – to deliver working solutions.
To strive for artistic and technical excellence, and to always work toward achieving it
Team Members
Saitabao Kaiyare
Creative Director Filmmaker
Saitabao Kaiyare often seen wearing jewellery traditional to his Maasai people, and symbols of ancestral calling and guidance, he holds a Certificate in Film Design, from Filmakademie, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and a BA in ICT from Kenya Methodist University. With an uproarious sense of humour that celebrates the absurd, Saita believes that playfulness and laughter are important tools to bring to work and life, especially when there are heavy topics at hand. He can be found eating Viazi Karai, biryani, Nyama choma, or taking walks among the trees.
Mumo Liku
Business Development Creative Producer
Mumo Liku loves the colours blue and green, but only in their darker shades. A natural-born organiser, passionate about entrepreneurs and their empowerment, he holds a BA in Communications from Daystar University, and an MA in Creative Enterprise from University of Reading, UK. A huge fan of rice and coconut beans, he can also be found dancing enchantingly, meeting new and interesting people, and generally adventuring outdoors.
Notable Clients
