 Benson, Ben Benson, Present Present Without Apology. Tundin, you guys look amazing. Nyandarua Tundin, thank you so much for your feedback. We have Maish, Emily, it's Maish, Tundin from the Ika Play for me Samantha. Ndongo wa Nyambura Flappa, watching from the Ika. Simeyu Maudrin, Tundin at Gashie. Can you give me wajabubai muwanasafi music please? Okay, that one is new but it's from Taftia. Yeah, true. Yes, so like I said today we are speaking the language of self employment and our next guest is a filmmaker. He has his own company and is managing to employ people out of it. So it's not just you, when you create employment for yourself, you do it for the other people. And I'm speaking about the one and only Benson Mwanza. Welcome. Yes, and he's also such a big fan of the E-Circuit. Sko sangi komentiage kila saradi. Right? So kindly introduce yourself. Utuambiuna Fanya Nini. Sonsana Ayubi Nyaga, Sonsana Ayubi Wai Wai 254. I'm Benson Mwanza, I'm a Benova. Benova is my good name Benova. I'm a producer, an actor, and a director. I own Benova Entertainment. Just a minute, can you just switch the mics? How many better? You, you are the one who is watching the other one. I'm Benson Mwanza, Benova. Benova is my good name, my artist name. Producer, director, and also an actor. I own Benova Entertainment. Sonsana Ayubi Wai 254. So kindly tell us what goes into making a film. A feature film, a short film? What goes into a film, you first of all need the content. That's the knowledge of what you want to do. We have the society. At is where we speak what is going on in the society. What can be said in another way. We say it in a humorous way, so for people to understand. Also you need capital, and you also need manpower, yes. So which one among that is the most challenging to find? The most challenging to find is capital. For you to do anything, you need money, and money controls everything. Even in relationships I hear people say, mapenzi is your pesa, but I will say money is everything. Mapenzi ni pesa anyway. Mapenzi ni pesa na pesa ni mapenzi, yes, yes. So from Benova Entertainment, what is it that you have managed to do so far? In Benova Entertainment, I've already done, I've released my new movie. It's called Clouds of Love, a very big movie. Watua mi penasana. Watua ganyao. Watu, Watua ganyawa kuna wawe, wate. So other than capital being your main challenge, in just generally the film industry, ni challenges ga nizi ni una piti asana asana, other than capital? Other than capital, my first challenge is my name, yes. Your name, what do you mean your name? My name, I mean Benova. You'll introduce yourself like, hello I'm Benova, and someone is, ah? What did you say? Benova? So it's challenging even to say that name in churches. Yeah, I want to correct this thing, guys, it's a beautiful name, Benova. I was given that name by a girl, a very small girl. I was trying to come up with the name when I was starting the industry. Ni met, ni metokambali, mutokambari na wuko, chini, chini. So I was trying to come up with the name, Benova, one morning. Ni came up with the name, ni metokambali. And from there I was trying to come up with the name, Benova, Benova. And I also, I look for an angel, an angel sent from heaven because I'm also a strong prayer and a believer. And I trust God and I thank God for giving me that name. Ni kukudumu, it's a brand, Benova. Yeah, okay, other than your name, what else is? Your biggest challenge. The challenge is winning the trust and winning people's hearts. This industry needs a lot of devotion, it needs lots of working hard, never losing focus because before you get into there, you know, as youth we need things to come our way very soon. We just have dreams and we want the dreams to come out. Immediately. Immediately. I'm telling you, in this industry, you have to sacrifice even going to sleep or spending nights outside, thinking, having dreams and you be demanded because you have a dream but you don't have capital to make it come true. So it needs lots of being focused and praying hard. And as I always say, anytime you walk in, listen to your footsteps, they always speak to you. Yes. How do they speak to you? That's interesting. If Nyaga when you walk in, the footsteps produce some sound. If you keenly, deeply listen to that sound, you'll get a message. All right. Try that. Did you know that, DJ Rashen? From Benova, yes. Okay. You know, in all the industries, there are so many awards coming up. In the film industry kuna kalasha, riverwood, among so many other words, do you feel like those awards are genuine? Because I'm also not new to the film industry, I have been there before and I'm still there. And same people keep winning all through and through and as we were talking with it, we are with you about this. Do you feel like it's something genuine? To start with, when I was starting Benova Entertainment, I never started it to win any award. I started it to communicate, to help youth, to help talent. I think these awards, from the point of people winning it each year, year out, you can also think, and as Benova Entertainment says, think differently. So I'm not concerned about if it's a predetermined thing, I'm not into such awards. But you know, the awards are not a bad thing. They are just appreciating your good work. Sure. Yeah. So if someone appreciates my good work through the awards, then I don't mind that as much as that is not your main goal. It will take years for me to think and re-think about it, but I'm not going into any award any soon. Why not? Because class is not also your choice? People are awarding me each every day through my movies. All right. And that's all the best. I will let that one go. How do you distribute your movies? Okay, thank you. I have a team and I'm also still working on a team. I need, I'm focused on having two salespersonners in each town in Kenya. Okay. In Kenya, we have another problem of movie distribution, distribution companies and what have you, because of some factors, I choose to work as myself individually. Yeah. Because I'm also looking into working with those distribution companies, but I need individually who will be selling my movie and add copies. In that way, I'll be creating jobs for the youth and also for anyone who is interested. So talk to us about your new film, Clouds of Love. What is it about? Clouds of Love is a very nice movie. A very nice movie talking about love, true love. We see a rich girl falling in love with a boy, an humble boy from an humble background. We also have a serve employment in the movie that is a business. That you don't have to go for that white collar job. You can still use whatever you have to make your living. In the movie again, we also have education and love and education. I'm trying to say it is not cool, it's not good for students or people, I know you, they are in midterm. It's not good for them to be dating as highly as high school. That's where the devil is splitting our youth and they lose focus from them. In the movie also, I'm also talking about how youths are being challenged by lack of employment and how that lack of employment gets them into criminal activities. Being used and damned. We also have corruption in the movie as the movie ends. So you have covered quite a few things. Yeah, I also talk about corruption. It is a big movie, a very nice movie. If I wanted to watch that movie, where can I find it? You will see my salespersonals in every town, you can buy a copy. You can get a copy. You can also visit my YouTube channel where you can get the movie trailer, Benova Entertainment. Yes. So how do I get to these salespersonals? Salespersonals, they are moving everywhere. So see ma liu nes endo patem tomi kain, then I tell them I want clouds of love. I'm also working on distributing them in movie shops. Although I'm having some water stomach, I'll think about that. So you know, in the film industry, it's very hard to come up with something new. You know, either into a metua story from an old movie they saw. How do you make sure that you have fresh ideas? Oh, that's nice. For me, I am Benova because of the Lord. And I say all my content, I get it from dreams. Yes. I write scripts from dreams. I don't copy any other people's work. Thanks to the late Steven Kanumba, who is my mentor, who made me into this film. I sometimes follow his films, but I don't make my films from his films. Mine are purely sent from heaven. Sent from heaven? From heaven. Okay. Nice. You say if your motto is think differently. Think differently. So I have a question for you. Which oceans don't have water? Which? Oceans don't have water. Oceans don't have water. Yes. Oceans without water. Which oceans don't have water? You know, when I was when I was cooling, I never used to get everything. I used to have some part of not know what we need. So I used to go to the movies. That's why I said I'd give it to you. Where did you come from? I'm from Niyako. What's your name? Do you have a map of what you used to have? I don't know if I know what I used to have. The ones on the maps don't have water? Oh, in books? Yes. On any map? Yes. What's your name? I'm Fikiria. I'm Kenesawa. I'm Jaribu. I'm Jaribu. Otherwise, I'm Japata. Kusinda doa apa? Okay. Nisawa tu. Nailewa. If someone wanted to join your team, production team, if they wanted to be actors, if they wanted to be just part of Banova Entertainment, is there a criteria of being part of your team? In my industry, I'm mainly focusing on fresh talents. People are talented, but they're not getting opportunities in other film production industries. So, in my industry, it's very simple, but not that simple. First of all, I'm doing English movies. Purely English? Purely English. Okay. Because my movie, my target populace is worldwide. So, if first of all, need to be good in English, the second thing, have passion in acting. Then, if you have those two things and you are talented, you mean it, you are talented, you can reach me anytime, directly. Yeah. Would you mind sharing your contacts where they can reach you? Do we start on with contacts or online? My number. I have many numbers, but I'll give the one. Share the one they can. Which you can reach me anytime except to Siku. 0719. Can you use that camera? 0719 38 76 65. Or, they can email me moanzavensonwan at gmail.com. When you get the movie, my email address is there. Okay. Yeah. So, thank you so much for making time to be with us. Asan sana. And we wish you all the best. Asanti. But before we wind up, what one piece of advice would you give to a person who is, who wants to venture in the film industry as a producer, as an actor, crew? Yeah. My advice is when you get into this film industry, don't expect to get returned at that time. You have to sacrifice yourself. You have to be focused. You have to... And I'll say, give the society clean content. As a society, we have norms, we have customs, we have do's and don'ts. So, as you are going to give the, your movies or your articles into the society, make sure it doesn't harm the society. Yeah. Okay. Our topic of discussion today was, which is that one thing that kills relationship? In your opinion, what is it? Relationships, we have many things, but for me, I'll say, in fasts, they are lies. When you lie, when you lie in your relationship, even at the first time, your relationship is dead. Yeah. So that's your number one killer? Number one killer is lying. Yeah. Okay. Not being trustworthy. Not being trustworthy. Yeah. For me, if you lie for me, even if I'm trying to approach you, then you lie to me. If I watch your name, you say it's Florence, then I come to get your name was Eve. That's it. It's already dead. It's dead. It's already dead. Yeah. Okay. We're trying to nest it. Yes, and that was Benova. You can get his films, Villa Mesema, sales representative. If you want to be part of his team, Mepiana number and you can continue creating employment for yourself. Like I said, don't just sit at home. People are doing great things out here. So be part of that. Don't you go anywhere. We will be back with more of the e-circuit.