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Directed by | Kwame Nyong'o |
Screenplay by | Alan Barillaro |
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Music by | Jim Pywell |
Production company | Apes in Space |
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Running time | 10 minutes |
Country | Kenya |
Language | English |
The Legend of Ngong Hills is a 2011 Kenyan animated short film directed by Kwame Nyong'o, based on a Maasai folktale. The film showed at the 2011 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, [1] and it won the Best Animation award at the 8th Africa Movie Academy Awards. [2] [3]
The story is about Ogre, who has a habit of attacking the Maasai Village, but then falls in love with the beautiful young maiden Sanayian.