 We have Wadhanu Jukiya who is an actress and we are going to be having a performance today from Trisa Joki. It's Christmas season and what better day to talk about film than Saturday because everybody is at home. People are in front of their TVs, people are not working today. And to start off we would like to show a trailer by Glite Lakes sorry productions called the Rathhof Betrayed Source. This is information, religion destroys morons and our bands destroys the economy. If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. Keep on moving forward. My dear granddaughter, you have to be strong for yourself as well as for your dad. You are the eldest to your dad's company remember? We have a film called the Rathhof Betrayed Source. We are starting with you Edward as a director. What was your intention? Tell us something more about that film. Okay, first Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you too but then how was your day forgive my manners. My day was fine. I enjoyed the day I was in church and I'm happy to be with you. Okay, what about you? What does Christmas mean to you? Christmas is all about sharing, sharing is caring and love, love, smile and elders. Okay, let's go back now to our day's topic. Why did you choose to do the Rathhof Betrayed Source? First, the reason why I chose it is because of the day-to-day society. I wanted to talk about something different from love or let me say comedy. I wanted to at least try to teach the audience of the different things that is happening to our society. So that was why I chose the Rathhof Betrayed Source. Yeah, because it's a script that is different from other kind of scripts that we are used to. Okay, so maybe because what we've seen is a trailer. So when is the movie coming out maybe for someone who wants to watch it? The movie will be ready by the second week of January. Okay. We're just doing the clearance from the KFC classification board. Okay. Watanu, you are an actress with the Glide Lakes Global Productions. Why did you choose to do acting? Acting first is a passion. It comes from within. For you to choose to be an actress, you can't. It's not a career, it's a talent. I've tried a lot of things before. But I find myself coming back every time. So do you do acting full time or do you have something that you do? I'm a student. Also student balancing the acting talent. Okay. So I would like us to talk about a few things like how is the film industry doing, what are some of the challenges that you face like so far for the time that you guys have been doing our film. And for you a director, when you're doing casting and you have a film, you have a script and you need actors and actresses for that. What do you look out for when you're looking for a cast member or when you're looking for someone to play a certain role in a film? Okay. So I'll start from the casting part as the director. Number one is to locate a good script. Because we have so many people who come with a script when I submit a script. So you have to choose first. I choose the best script. After that, we have a group of people who do acting like Watanin Juki. So I'll look at the group. Does Watanu fit that role? If she doesn't fit, I'll go and look for auditions. Let me say I want a lady who is dark and she's brown. So she doesn't fit that. So I look for auditions. I locate another thing, someone who may be young or old. I can't play like an old person. At any we can make up it will look like a drama. And this is a film. So I look for the right person that fits the role. Okay. Beside the physical that is the age, maybe you want a that-yout guy. You want a light lady, you want a dark lady. Apart from that, what helps you make sure you look? Because you can have someone who fits all the physical aspects of it all. But maybe they're not going to manage to put out the script as you want them to. I'll talk about the communication. If this script is a Kiswaili script, getting someone who doesn't, he or she knows the local language will be a challenge. So I say education is so important. I'll choose someone who fits it. The physical appearance, I look at the education. I look at the communication skills. I look at the way he delivers. There's a way someone can deliver something that is more appropriate than the way Asinjukia does it. So I'll just look at the educational background mostly. Okay. As an actress, I'm sure you've gone for several casting calls and all that. Is there a place where you've gone and they're like, no, have you maybe auditioned and not gotten a certain character or a certain role? It happens a lot of times. And how do you now get to deal with that? Well, you learn from it. Well, we don't lose. When you say like I've gone for an audition and I haven't been picked, I say that is not a loss. I'm learning something from that. So how do you prepare yourself for an audition? How do you make sure that by the time you're working to meet the director, to meet the person leading the cast and all that, that you're well prepared so that you don't end up losing every opportunity that comes? How do you prepare yourself to make sure that you're the perfect, let's call it perfect person to be picked for a certain role? That is reasing a few men at last. Maybe if they want a song. Mr. Director, let me call you Mr. Director. How would you say the film industry in Kenya right now is doing? First I will thank the KFC and the Kalasha. The film industry is rising at a very fast rate compared to the backwards. The film industry is rising. There are new content. I was in the Kalasha awards. There's something that I saw that nowadays they have set up the standards of the film. We have new people coming up with ideas that can be watched anywhere in the universe. So the film industry is rising. We have a lot of top people who have talent, who have skills. Also in terms of payment, the film industry is now paying. And the way they used to say, if you tell someone I'm doing acting, it's like, ah, unitas equally. So it's a good, the industry is good. If you do quality thing, it's good. For you, Jukiya, when you have to, let's say there's a casting and they need maybe a woman, a business woman. She's supposed to be strong, maybe she's supposed to be mean. Have you ever found it so hard to maybe play like the mean characters? How do you try to make sure that when people see you out there, they don't see that Jukiya was in the movie and now start thinking that this girl is mean because you've had instances where actors and actresses say that people judge them based on the movies or the films that they have done. Have you maybe probably had such an experience? Well, let's try to explain to my colleagues, my friends and everybody around me that that is somebody else, that is mean character, but this is mean person. So you can't judge me based on what I'm doing over there. That is work. I have to be in that certain way to bring that character out. Okay. So when you meet me in live from this way, so don't judge me. Okay. So we've seen this days we have a lot of movie apps that is online. For example, we have Netflix and we've seen a lot of Nigerian movies on that platform. What do we think we can do as Kenyans to make sure that our movies, because when a movie is on Netflix, this is something that is accessible to everyone in this world. So what do you think Kenya can do? That is Kenya content creators, that is producers, directors. What can we do to make sure that we get to see one day, you log in on a certain application and find a Kenyan movie? On that I can say is that we need to push more. If you want something you have to just go for it. If there is the government or those who are capable of making that happen, because we have a nice content in Kenya, I cannot say that we don't have a movie that can be shown on Netflix. We have a variety, Selena and all that. So what I can say is that those who are doing the creation, the filmmakers do something that can fit that platform on Netflix. Number two, we look for people who have the capability or those who have the networks to get there. I still don't know how I can get a movie to the Netflix. Even though I've watched Netflix movies, I know they are growing each and every time I'm fixing more upcoming movies. So we are going to be taking a very short break, but when we come back or let us talk about how can film creators in this country make sure that they are creating content that is also sustainable and content that is also relatable to the audience. We are going to be taking a very short break on why two-five for news. Don't go too far away. We'll be right back.