Claire x Bosco
2021 | 25 minutes | Kinyarwanda with English subtitles | Rwanda
In Claire x Bosco, Mutiganda wa Nkunda explores the psychological impact the pandemic has had on working class women in Rwanda. The film was produced as part of ‘Visualizing the Virus’ project by the University of Global Health Equity, in which four Rwandan filmmakers were invited to make short films that explored how Rwandans coped with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The screening of this film was followed by a discussion between the filmmaker Mutiganda wa Nkunda, researcher Injonge Karangwa, and lawyer Alice Bullard.
About the Filmmaker
Mutiganda wa Nkunda is a Rwandan self-taught filmmaker and a former film journalist. Having worked on TV series and films, he focuses primarily on women’s struggles in contemporary Rwanda. His debut feature film Nameless won the best screenplay award at The Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou as well as best actress at Brussels International Film Festival.
As a producer, his feature film A Taste of Our Land won Best first narrative feature film award at PanAfrican Film Festival 2020 and was nominated in 2 categories at AMAAs 2021 winning Best first feature film. Apart from filmmaking, he’s also the co-founder of 250 Film Experiment, a collective of Rwandan filmmakers as well as the co-curator of its cine-club. He also teaches screenwriting with various film institutions in Rwanda.
About the Historian and Lawyer
Alice Bullard is a Washington DC based lawyer, with a practice in human rights, trafficking, personal status, and mediation. She serves clients in the USA and abroad. She has worked in human rights in West Africa since the late 1990s. From 1994 to 2007 Bullard was a professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta Georgia, where she co-founded the Human Rights Initiative with the generous sponsorship of the B Wardlaw Foundation. Her publications include Exile to Paradise, (Stanford University Press, 2000), Human Rights in Crisis, (Ashgate 2008), and Mauritania Look, The Struggle for Human Rights (IRA-USA 2014), as well as numerous essays.
About the Researcher
Injonge Karangwa is Global Health Researcher, singer and songwriter. In 2019 she founded the Hamwe Festival at the University of Global Health Equity, an annual event with the mission to enable collaborations between Health and Creative sectors to generate health outcomes and research on collective wellbeing. Karangwa also creates content for museums and specializes in mental health public engagement.
