Yuhi Amuli

  • Yuhi Amuli
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Film director, Actor, Producer, Screenwriter, Assistant director
(Male)
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv

Rwandan Film Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Producer.

His alternate names
Yuhi Yves AMULI
Yves AMULI


Yuhi AMULI is a Film Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Producer.

He is known for ISHABA (2015, Director), KAZUNGU (2018, Director / Screenwriter), NAMELESS (2020, Actor / Co-Producer), A TASTE OF OUR LAND (2020, Director / Screenwriter / Producer).

Born in 1993 in Kigali (Rwanda), Yuhi AMULI grew up in Bukavu (Congo DRC) before his family moved to Nkombo Island, near Lake Kivu in Rwanda. He left law school in the second year to devote himself to cinema. Hi is a director and screenwriter, known for his short film Ishaba (2016) among others. Occasionally Yves Amuli stars in his own films and help out his fellow filmmakers as an assistant director and Producer.

Yuhi Amuli is a Film Director, Screenwriter and Producer from Rwanda. His directorial debut feature film A TASTE OF OUR LAND (2020) premiered at the Pan African film festival in Los Angles and won the Jury Award for Best First Narrative Feature Film. The film went on to screen at various other film festivals worldwide and won the African Movie Academy Awards (2020) for Best First Feature Film by a Director. In 2017, through his independent production company IZACU, he produced NAMELESS, a feature film that took part in TAKMIL, a post- production workshop at Carthage film festival in Tunisia, and was picked for distribution by Orange Studios (France). His three short films ISHABA (2015), AKARWA (2017) and KAZUNGU (2018) have been screened and won awards at various film festivals worldwide, including Durban film festival in South Africa, Amiens international film festival in France, Cinemas des Vues d'Afrique in Canada, Luxor African film festival in Egypt, Lausanne film festival in Switzerland and Rwanda film festival, where ISHABA and KAZUNGU won best short film in 2016 and 2019 respectively. He is an Alumni of Maisha film Lab (2015), One file Day films (2017), Berlinale Talent (2021) and Toronto Filmmaker Lab (2020) which he attended with his second feature film EXODUS, currently in development.

Yuhi Amuli is interested in
#Low Budget
#New Distribution Models/ VOD
#Human Rights
#Indigenous Cinema
#Drama
#Historical Drama
#Documentary
#Collaborative Working
#Politics
#Women Empowerment
#Philosophy

HIS FILMOGRAPHY (abstracts):
- Inyiturano (2013, Short Drama) /// Director
- Room 19 (2014, Short Drama) /// Director
- ISHABA (2016, Short Drama, 5 min) /// Director
- AKARWA (2017, Short Drama, 11 min, Short) /// Director
- KAZUNGU (2018, Short Drama, 15 min, Short) /// Director / Writer
- NAMELESS (2019, Feature Drama, 110 min), Actor / Co-Producer
- A TASTE OF OUR LAND (2020, Feature Drama, 84 min) /// Director / Writer / Producer
- THE YOUNG CYCLIST (2021, Short Documentary, 5 min) /// Director
- EXODUS (in development, Drama, 90 min, feature) /// Director / Writer / Producer


WEB
http://yuhiamuli.com/about-me/
www.berlinale-talents.de/bt/talent/yves-amuli2/profile
www.freshcraftseries.com/who/participants/
updated by Thierno Dia, on 26 July 2022

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  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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