Joseph S. Ken (ZENKEN)

  • Joseph S. Ken (ZENKEN)
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Film director, Producer, Screenwriter, Activist
(Male)
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv

Ugandan filmmaker and film producer.

He is sometimes credited as
Joseph Kenneth SSEBAGGALA
Joseph Kenneth "Zenken" SSEBAGGALA
JOSEph S KEN
Joseph S. KEN


Joseph Kenneth SSEBAGGALA aka JOSEph S KEN (1983, Uganda) is a visual artist with a Bachelor's degree in Art and Industrial Design from Kyambogo University (2007). In 2008 he started taking film training and workshops, like the Durban Talent Campus 2011. As a writer, producer and director he runs a film company called Zenken Films, under which he has produced two of his feature films: "Master on Duty" and "That Small Piece".

JOSEph S KEN, a COE/Director/Producer, professionally a Visual Artist holding a Bachelors Degree in Art and Industrial Design from Kyambogo University (2004-2007). 2008 he started engaging himself into film training, workshops and the making. So far some of the film training programs he has attended to are; Maisha Film Lab - Uganda, One Fine Day Film Workshop - Kenya, Durban Talent Campus - South Africa, now he is a practicing film writer, Producer and Director and he is the founder of Zenken Films.

Source:
http://zenkenfilms.webs.com/about-us

Joseph S Ken is a Uganda filmmaker with interests in a dviversity of production roles. His production company, Zenken films is an independent film production company based in Uganda-East Africa, an award winning hub of multimedia talent and creativity with a strong belief in independence and experience. They are a team of professionals in television broadcasting, film production, video graphics, and printaries. Dealing in all kinds of filmmaking that communicates to the world with Social, Religious, and Political challenges, producing a verity of multimedia content for private and non-government organizations, including TV adverts, Documentaries, TV reality shows, TV game shows and TV quiz shows.

They have a vision for a narrative cinema that is both Entertaining and Educating, looking at film as a media tool to reach different audiences around the world, not only to make them laugh and cry, but also to inform them, inspire them, transform their lives and to sell cultures.His production company, Zenken films is an independent film production company based in Uganda-East Africa, an award winning hub of multimedia talent and creativity with a strong belief in independence and experience. They are a team of professionals in television broadcasting, film production, video graphics, and printaries. Dealing in all kinds of filmmaking that communicates to the world with Social, Religious, and Political challenges, producing a verity of multimedia content for private and non-government organizations, including TV adverts, Documentaries, TV reality shows, TV game shows and TV quiz shows.


FILMOGRAPHY / FILMOGRAPHIE
(2009) Master on Duty
(2011) Akataka/That Small Piece
(2014) Reform
(2015) Call 112
(2015) House Arrest
(2017) The Way Out
(2019) Shark Avenue
(2023) Unheard


Fontes / Sources / Sources :
- www.facebook.com/joseph.sken.5/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kenneth_Ssebaggala
- https://iffr.com/en/persons/joseph-s-ken
- www.youtube.com/@ZenkenFilms
- https://zenkenfilms.webs.com/
updated by Thierno DIA, 14 Jan 2023

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