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Two more Kenyan producers join elite Oscars vetting team

Film maker Wanjiru Njendu.

Three years ago, Kenyan filmmaker Judy Kibinge was just ‘chilling’ (in her word) in Chebeaugue Island in Maine, USA, on the invite of her friend Nicola Shepherd when she received the news.

She had just been invited to join the Oscar Academy, the elite institution that chooses which films to give the gong to for the annual Oscar Academy Awards, the most prestigious film awards in the world.

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