Betty Kathungu Furet
Betty Kathungu Furret
Betty Kathungu Furret is a Kenyan Director, film and documentary producer[1]and the founder of Furet Films, a film and documentary production company in Kenya[2].
She is married to Sebastian Furret and they have two children.
She has produced films and documentaries such as Unveiling The Colony, Family Meeting, Wangai's Cross, Medicine Man, Kizingo, Mazagazaga (Mnet), Magerio. [3]
Kizingo, a comic film airing on Showmax won Best feature film and Best Cinematography at the 2017 Riverwood awards[4][5].
Early Life and Career
Betty Kathungu started out her career in the TV and film as an actress. Her journey as a film producer started in 2006 when she made her first feature film ‘Wangai’s Cross’[6] in 2006 while still a student at the Andrew Crawford Media school. The film, which launched to a full house at Alliance Francaise in Nairobi, later made it to M-net, Zuku and K24.
In 2019, she came to the public limelight after she went public to crowdfund filming of her film 'Medicine Man'[7].
In July 2020, her film Medicine Man became one of the first 12 films in Kenya to be funded by the government after Furet films received Sh 3 million to fund the film under the Film Empowerment Programme[8], which followed President Uhuru Kenyatta's Covid-19 stimulus package that saw Sh100 million set aside for local artists, actors and musicians[9]. The film industry got Sh8.9 million of the Sh 100 million Covid-19 stimulus package for artists.
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- ^ "One on One With Veteran Filmmaker Betty Kathungu Furet". KenyanVibe. 2018-05-28. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ "INTERVIEW: Filmmaker Betty Kathungu". Showmax Stories. 2017-11-23. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ Muriuki, Karen (2020-09-28). "Kenya: KFC to the Rescue of 'Medicine Man' as Filmmakers Receive Covid-19 Funds". allAfrica.com. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ Mwangi, Vanessa (2017-03-14). "Full list of winners in the Riverwood Awards 2017". HapaKenya. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ "Riverwood Awards". Nation. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ "Wangai's Cross (Kenya, 2008) | UC Berkeley Library". www.lib.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ "Online harambee: How we're raising money to shoot expensive movie". Nation. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ "whats new Article - Kenya Film Commission". kenyafilmcommission.com. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ "Uhuru gives Ksh.100 million in coronavirus funds to musicians, actors". Citizentv.co.ke. Retrieved 2020-11-04.