bio

Karanja Wangui, popularly known as Toonhood, is a multi talented artist. Apart from Film making, he is also a poet, an author, an actor, a stunts actor, a comedian, a creative director and a photographer. He was raised up in an artistic environment, and where most teachings were from stories, he strongly believes that with story telling, one can change the world hence his mantra; Changing the world, a story at a time. He is a person who believes that every day is a learning day. He is always open to collaborations from story tellers from all over the world.

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Actor
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Journalist
Photographer
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education

differed bachelors degree in computer science at year 4 . T have training certificates for film making.

experience

2023 A CINEMATOGRAPHER AT REVERBNATION Karanja wangui is part of Raverbnation family and is part of the following programs: 1. Pengs of Nairobi - A web series that talks about Relationships as well as education. www.reverbnation.tv 2. Reverb nation - A political satire depicting the effect of politics to the citizens of kenya. 3. Kick Off - this is a web series that focuses on football drama and relationships. 2022 Karanja wangui using a mobile phone made a film, that was aimed at reducing the killings of homosexuals in the country. The film was number seven in BOMOA UKUTA film competition hosted by the German Embassy Nairobi. He later got training at German artist residence Nairobi the same year. The film was Selected at KALAKARI film festival, LIFT OFF FILM MAKER sessions in January and March 2023 and was a nominee in GIETY film festival 2023. THE LEFT OUT RIGHTS After being trained in SIMUSLATE LAB 2022, Karanja Wangui made a documentary, THE LEFT OUT RIGHTS. The documentary followed a Mirror Arts Production in their struggle to get venues to show case plays in kenya. The documentary was aconversation starter and he is now planning to do the second phase of the documentary. The Documentary was selected in LIFT OFF FILM MAKER sessions 2023, A nominee in GIETY film festival and honorable mention in AFRICAN SMARTPHONE INTERNATIONAL film festival 2022. https://africansmartphonefilmfest.com/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival/the-left-out-rights/ 2020 I participated in my first films ever as an extra cast and as well did the motion graphics for these three films : ATOTI, ADWARO GIGEGA and IFIKIE WAZAZI by PAWA 254. They are all on vimeo. here are the links. Ifikie Wazazi https://filamu.org/movie/ifikie-wazazi/ Atoti https://filamu.org/movie/atoti/ Adwaro Gigega https://filamu.org/movie/adwaro-gigega/ Watch all three on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/showcase/6982966 2020 Sincerely Daisy One of my poems, MALAIKA, was featured in sincerely daisy film. Malaika is a love poem in swahili. it translates to Angel. You can watch the film on Netflix. 2020 PUBLISHED MY POETRY ANTHOLOGY, WHAT IF? After writing and performing poetry for over five years, Karanja wangui published his first poetry anthology in 2020. The book, WHAT IF?, is a collection of poems written from his real life experiences and that of the people around him. He has however been featured in many poetry anthologies earlier. 2019 CREATIVE DIRECTOR FOR CHIPUKEEZY COMEDY SHOW Karanja wangui was part of the creative team behind Chipukeezy show and Chipukeezy Comedy club where he was working with over 50 comedians as their creative director. The show was airing at TV47. It was an honor directing Chipukeezy who i was watching when i was in high school. To me it was a dream come true. Here are some of the links to the shows that i was part of. 1. https://youtu.be/JIBGW17V9gI 2. https://youtu.be/dftoYACeBes 3. https://youtu.be/sNfukSQdjUY

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