COMPANY PROFILE AND MISSION STATEMENT
Rafiki is the Kisuaheli word for "friend".
When I was little, I was extremely difficult to feed.
"Sticky girl," my mother would say. "Iki, iki," quothe
I, and the nickname held. So I have always been known
as Iki and chose to name my company rafIki as
a fun combination of my name and my roots.
rafIki productions (logo) does not solicit
scripts or ideas from others. We are focusing on producing
and marketing our own material.
COMPLETED FILMS:
written, produced, and directed by Kenny Mann
DOODOOS-
3mns. 16mm. Color, 1968. An experimental film using wind-up
toys to create silly scenes of disaster.
POWERPLAY
- 6mns. 16mm. Black and white. 1973. An experimental
film using play of hands on the topic of the oppressor
and the oppressed.
CHEFA JILA - 58mns. 16mm. Color.
1975. A documentary film about life in
a small village on the edge of Lake Zwai in Ethiopia,
20km. from the main road south from Adis Ababa to Kenya.
SUNDIATA - THE
HERITAGE OF THE GRIOT - 6mns. Color. 1995.
(Writer). Live musicians and original paintings tell the
story of Sundiata, the legendary king of the 13th century
African kingdom of Mali.
SURRENDER
- 14mns. 16mm. Black and white. 2002. Experimental
film about a woman contemplating a move forward toward
her nextr "incarnation."
INDIA - AND OTHER
THOUGHTS - 54mns. Color. 2004. A personal
travelogue about a journey alone through southern India.
EARTHWATCH:
CONSERVATION RESEARCH INITIATIVE, NORTHERN KENYA
- 13mns. Color. 2006. A promotional film about the fantastic
work that Earthwatch is doing to involve local Samburu
people in wildlife conservation in northern Kenya.
THE SWAHILI BEAT
- 28mns. Color. An upbeat look at the history of East
Africa's Swahili coast.
IN
POST-PRODUCTION:
BREAKTHROUGH!
- 54mns. Color. Traces the work of Tostan,
an NGO that brings human rights education to the people
of Senegal with extraordinary results, culminating in
the decision by women to end the practice of female genital
cutting for good.
RIDING THE EQUATOR - 54mns.
Color. A documentary about my parents, Igor and Erica
Mann, their escape from Hitler's Europe and their
extraordinary lives and work in Africa.
SCRIPTS:
EXPOSED: When an aging female photographer
in the Hamptons meets a teenage prostitute fleeing post-9/11
Manhattan, she finds the subject that will bring her the
fame she craves, but risks her life in the teenager's
chaotic world of criminals on the run.
MARRANO! A Jewish tax collector
in the court of Queen Isabel of Spain risks all to save
his family when he discovers that his wealth and political
clout will not spare him from the Inquisition.
Kenny Mann
rafIki productions
PO Box 2789
Sag Harbor NY 11963
631 725-2620 646 479-5884
ikimann@earthlink.net
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