The following are synopses of some of our work.  For a full list of our Production Click Here 1. CHEPOKAWAT Since 1999 the Rural Women Peace Link, a community based organization supported by the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), has been working with the Pokot women of Masol of in an effort to strengthen, influence and promote their participation in peace work and public life in general. Masol has been known as the hot bed of conflicts in Kerio Valley and the destructive impact of cattle rustling on women has long been overlooked. Chepokawat is the story of the valiant efforts of the Pokot Women of this location, especially the women, to put an end to the negative practice of cattle rustling. This video is a useful guide in the advocacy for peace in regions affected by ethnic violence and cattle rustling. 2. LAKESIDE Lakeside takes an insightful look into the third largest city in Kenya, Kisumu. It highlights its unique features such as the adjacent Lake Victoria and the lifestyle it has spawned the popular Boda Boda mode of transport, distingtive geographical features such as Kit-Mikayi which is stepped in rich folklore and other attractive revelations. 3. SIMBI NYAIMA The tranquil and prosperous village of Simbi has just experienced a bountiful harvest and the Chief a huge party. However, along comes a mysterious and old tired woman seeking food and a place to rest. Nobody is willing to host her except Achieng’, the wife of Okoko. Simbi is based on an oral story from Nyanza in Western Kenya which explains the existence of a mysterious lake by the same name. Simbi won the BEST SHORT FILM award during the 2004 edition of Africacine week i.e. Kenya’s annual film festival in Nairobi. 4. SOLDIERS OF NATURE – DOCUMENTARY. Soldiers of Nature is a drama documentary about environmental awareness. Lotim is a boy just graduated from school. He is on his way from school to his homestead. Happy over his success, he yells out: “I’ve made it!” this is opening of a story where Lotim engages himself in making people aware of the environmental problems around the Lake Victoria Basin. In Kitale town he meets a representative of the NGO “ Soldiers of Nature” and he joins their work for a better future. The film shows the environmental problems like pollution from factories, human pollution, erosion, and the fast growing water hyacinth in Lake Victoria. But the film also shows that it is possible to stop this pollution and that the young people are interested and engaged in their own future. Like Lotim, other youths may tell their friends and parents that there is a solution! 5. NALIAKA IS GOING - SYNOPSIS Naliaka is Going is a cinematic sweep that is captivating and educational. On starring role actress Benta Stephanie Ochieng, who plays Naliaka, portrays her usual calmness and demeanor on the big screen as she has always done on theatre stages. Apart from Ochieng, Naliaka is Going also boasts other talented stage actors and actresses making their debut on the silver screen. Filmed in Kenya in a span of two weeks, due to budgetary constraints it is based on an authentic story, written by Brutus Sirucha, seeking to empower the girl child. It is directed by Albert Wandago, a renowned Kenyan feature filmmaker. It is a good story, exceedingly well told, and a sprawling epic that blends language, music and expansive remote locations with beautiful beaches to bring a real cinematic sweep that is effortlessly entertaining. The movie, which is mainly shot in Nairobi, Western Kenya, Mombasa beaches and Kenyan’s game parks has a beautiful story line which revolves around 14 year old girl, Naliaka. She drops out of school to work as a domestic help (house girl) to sustain her family and see her brother through college. Never content with her plight, Naliaka learns typing and improver her spoken and written English with assistance of her employer’ children. However, her alcoholic father learns that she plans to seek employment as a typist and he decides to marry her to his fellow-drinking mate (veteran Actor Obat Masira). But Naliaka flees the forced marriage and goes to the city where she realizes that she has jumped from the frying pan to fire. The city is very unwelcoming for Naliaka and she finds herself in the company of two street girls (played by Lucy Wella and Betty Kathungu), at night who try to lure her to bed with one of their drunken customers. Luckily, Naliaka manages to escape but only lands in the company of a sly man named Pik (Ken Ambani), who helps her get a place to sleep and buys her food. Pik initially looks genuine but later tries to lead Naliaka to bed, so she escapes again to the streets. She manages to grow with challenges that come along with suffering in the job –seeking business in Nairobi and finally lands a job as a typist. Although working as a typist was her idea, she grows disenchanted with the firm at the same time her friend, Pik, driven by ulterior motives at first, begins to genuinely care and fall in love with her. Naliaka has already been successfully screened in Zanzibar International Film Festival, Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa, Kenya Film Festival Kampala and was last year featured at the bi-annual URTNA-MAP television market in Nairobi. Kenya Television Network KTN, Kenya’s Prime television station and WBS Television Uganda have screened the film to much appraise. Mnet of S.Africa will screen it in 2005. 6. METAMO Duration: 90 Mins. Metamo is a tragic but exciting story of a woman who initially has almost everything working against her but firghts all odds to eventually emerge as Judge of the High Court. As she approaches high School, Metamo( daughter of a local Pastor) gets pregnant. She refuses to terminate the pregnancy as advised by her mother. After expulsion and then delivery, she tries to earn her living as a television actress. Frustrations, both at work and a single mother, drive her to make a decision. She goes back to school, excels in all her studies and is eventually appointed one of the few women judges of Kenya. 7. HOMELESS AT HOME. Duration: 29 Mins. Kenya has an area almost 600,000 square kilometers but from East to West or South to North there is hundreds of landless people-sometimes called the displaced. Indeed Kenyans went to war against the British colonial government primarily because of land. Though Kenyans won the war, the problem of land did not go away. Thousands of Kenyans remain landless. Homeless at Home Video examines the historical perspective of the “ Land Question”, picks a few volatile cases which have never been resolved and some cases e.g. land clashes victims or civic evictions then use these pictorial scenarios to give voice to the landless.  8. Where There Are Self – Governing Communities. Duration: 29 minutes. This documentary is about Kilifi District Development programme, which has helped over one hundred communities, mostly in the remoter and poorer areas of Kilifi District to become aware of their potential for Self-Governance. With minimal assistance, the communities have successfully implemented and are sustaining hundreds of projects of projects that make their life easier and give hope for a better future. Such has been the impact of this programme, that to certain extent, it has influenced the members of the National Constitutional Conference at Bomas, when drafting the new Constitution of Kenya.  9. KEEPING SAFE: Keeping safe is a 25-minute documentary drama about safety and security of the girl child. Set both in rural and urban environment, the video highlights circumstances that lead to sexual harassment, physical assault and sometimes rape/defilement. Salima goes to the same school as Shaft. Shaft has been trying to befriend Salima but to no avail. Salima makes it point blank that she doesn’t want any boyfriends because she wants to concentrate on her studies. Shaft thinks that the only way to get Salima is to use force – Salima uses a combination of tactics that girls can apply and get aaway safely. After the incident, the school takes appropriate measures to address the problem of rape. 10. SHIDA YETU KISWAHILI – DRAMA FEATURE SERIES – 150 Mins Shortage of fuel wood can be the cause of much suffering and insecurity in the rural areas. This problem is becoming more and more acute. Shida Yetu is a five – part dramatic video series that looks at the effects of fuel wood shortage and how this crisis can be addressed. 11. RAIN IS WATER – MVUA NI MAJI. ENGLISH – DOCUMENTARY – 27 Mins. This video promotes rainwater harvesting for sustainable development. It is about the successful rainwater-harvesting programme in Laikipia. Started ten years ago by the Anglican Church of Kenya (CPK). Part of the programme’s success was due to existing women’s groups who adopted this technology. 12. OUR WORLD. This video is about children of Kenya. Part of the story is portrayed as a magazine where we see children’s lives as they live it from different backgrounds e.g. the urban poor like the parking boys and rural poor like child labourers. We also see the children themselves. Whether from urban or rural, they speak about their dreams, their challenges and what they think troubles their country. 13. THE FUTURE IN OUR HANDS. 19 Min Video. It provides an insight into the lives of the pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the arid areas of Northern Kenya. The video portrays the efforts made by these communities in the provision of safe drinking water, the encouragement of crop farming, drought monitoring and the management of animal health in the community. The video was shot on location in the Samburu and Isiolo District of Nothern Kenya. 14. OUR WATER OUR MANAGEMENT. 25 Min. Improved rural supply systems are increasingly being handed over to communities for management and use… yet the concept and factors affecting community water management are poorly understood. Having identified this problem NETWAS, as international Non-Governing Organization specializing in capacity building and information exchange has been working with other stakeholders and communities to address this information gap through a process called Participatory Action Research. This video summarizes the process using water management experts and various communities that have been involved. Those interested in any of our productions give us your physical address, email, and send to Albert Wandago, Alwan Communications USD 5 (five) per title if you are in Kenya. For international clients send USD 14  (fourteen) per title by International Money Order.