KENYAN WINS US DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Juliet Torome beat other super talented filmmakers to win the CineSource's first annual Flaherty Documentary Contest in August and featured on the front page of the magazine. Juliet, 25, wrote a winning proposal for a webdoc (web documentary) where she wants to look at Oakland, California through an African’s eyes. “Hundreds of contestants applied, all from the US especially from the Bay Area,

FORMER STAR REPORTER CAUSING WAVES ON AMERICAN TV

Juliet Torome a former reporter with the Star (fastest growing newspaper in Kenya) caused a stir in the US after her documentary on African male circumcision was aired on an American TV channel. Juliet’s documentary on male circumcision was shot in Uganda. It follows the rites the young boys go through during their initiation. “I shot it as a by the way, I was in Uganda doing research on farmers