Our Productions
Borderline
To air on Startimes – 2017/18
Genre: Crime Drama
Produced: Season 1 & 2 (26 Eps x 26 mins)
Language: Swahili (English Subtitles)
Synopsis
Borderline is a story set in predominantly low income estates popularly known as ‘Eastlands’ in Nairobi, Kenya. At the centre is Lebo, a reformed gangster working hard to stay clean. Unfortunately, around him, many are enticed to crime by the promise of quick money and an escape out of poverty.
Constant fights for territory reaches fever pitch when Lebo’s sister – Queen – is murdered. Faced by an escalating scenario, he is pushed to intervene to save the people he loves. What happens when an ex-gangster is forced to pick up his weapon again?
Bypass Resort
To air on StarTimes – Aug 2016/17
Genre: Comedy Drama
Produced: Season 1 & 2 (26 Eps x 26 mins)
Language: English (English Subtitles)
Synopsis
Beatrice is caught in a love and business struggle for a dilapidated highway hotel that is next to a soon to be refurbished greater Eastern Bypass.
Owing to its this, Bypass Resort is deemed to hold great potential. The owner, Mr. Zingo, makes his wife believe that the place has been setup with his terminal benefits.
Having defaulted on loans advanced by Imara Bank, Mr. Ndetei the manager hires Beatrice as the strategy officer to turn around business fortunes. However, Mr. Ndetei wants the place for himself.
KWA JP
To air on StarTimes – March 2017
Genre: Comedy Series
Produced: Sn 1&2 (26 Eps x 26 mins)
Language: Swahili (English subtitles)
Synopsis
A situational comedy tied to a small roadside hotel – Kwa JP – owned by a traffic police man. He employs Kims, who is cousin of his from the village, to manage the place. Kims comes to Nairobi with an old inherited car which he turns into a taxi without JP knowing. Annie is the service girl and an accounts student in a dingy collage in town. She takes advantage of free WIFI at collage to download Latino series that she sells undercover with
assistance of Pinches – a matatu tout – who is attracted to her and sells DVDs as he touts. JP has had too many run-ins with Pinches on the road so they don’t see eye to eye.
K.E.R.U
To air on K24 (Kenyan FTA TV) – 2016/17
Genre: Action Drama (Edutainment)
Produced: Sn 1-2 (26 Eps x 26 mins)
Language: Swahili English Mix
Synopsis
“K.E.R.U.” is an acronym for: Kenya Emergency Response Unit.
KERU series is Kenya’s first counter-terror action drama premised on the current challenges facing the country from extremist and radical application of religious ideology – key ingredients for terrorism. Story plots are based an inter-agency security team fighting against the ills of radicalization, terror and other related vices that aid the propagation of harm and hate. KERU is a recourse unit to all other security forces within and without the borders of the country working hard day and night to ensure peace and freedom prevails.
La Msingi
To air on StarTimes – July 2016
Genre: Drama Series
Produced: Season 1 & 2 (26 Eps x 26 mins)
Language: Swahili (English subtitles)
Synopsis
This is a story of crash of cultures, with two women caught in a struggle to come to deal with deception by a man they both loved, upon his demise. Obuya was a big dreamer despite his humble village background.
He was encouraged to pursue his dreams by his first love Hawala, a village lady he married. On coming to the city, he succeeds but also meets marries Kara, a city lady from a well-of family. Despite her wealthy background, she is down to earth. The two women strive to keep Obuya’s dreams alive while fighting own struggles of betrayal, deceit and family loyalties.
FIHI
To air on StarTimes – April 2015/16
Genre: Drama Series
Produced: Season 1 – 4 (52 Eps x 26 mins)
Language: Swahili (English Subtitles)
Synopsis
Bridget is a widow left with 4 children in a spiral of misplaced love, betrayal, the need for money and the selfishness that is the human spirit. Her husband’s death was mysterious and is a constant gossip subject on the lips of the neighborhood. Unfortunately for her, the family is the only thing she inherited after Norman’s burial. His family took all his possessions and left Bridget a mother of four with nothing but a family legacy to keep. She is in a midst of constant struggle to hold the family together, despite tearing itself from within.
Nyumba Ten
To air on M-NET Channel 158 – 2015/16
Genre: Comedy Drama
Produced: Season 1 & 2 (26 Eps x 30 mins)
Language: Swahili (English Subtitles)
Platform Aired:
Synopsis
Nyumba Ten is an explosive fusion of comedy and drama surrounding the lives of neighbours living in a working class estate. It explores the day to day interaction between neighbours and the drama among those who want to interact, those who are forced to get to know their neighbors and those who just want to have a peaceful home environment.
It is a mix up in which some quest for survival, others to be heard, others to stand out as better than the rest, while some seek to make an impact in their community.
Trade Center
To air on Aired: Zuku TV – 2015/16
Genre: Comedy Drama
Produced: Season 1 (13 Eps x 26 mins)
Language: Swahili (English Subtitles)
Synopsis
It is a comedy drama series set in the corridors of a business building in downtown River Road, Nairobi. It is shared place full of activities and different businesses, which include printers, schools, bars, salons, herbal clinics and cyber cafes. Every episode comes with a new humorous story about either a client or one of the stall owners/keepers. The characters are people we know, have interacted with or have heard of.
Sunrise
To air on Aired: Zuku TV – 2016/17
Genre: Crime Drama (English + English Subtitles)
Produced: Sn 1 & 2 (26 Eps x 26 mins) – 2015/16
Language: English (English Subtitles)
Platform Aired:
Synopsis
Soni comes back home to Sunrise to find a very different estate from what she left. In the new ‘Sunrise’, there are constant battles for territory, with authorities seek more control, often for personal gains; gangs are inconstant battle and most others wanting to survive. She starts as a hero, quickly turns to prisoner forced to keep up an act to survive and ends trapped just like many others in SUNRISE.