{"id":231911,"date":"2010-01-26T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/?p=9243"},"modified":"2010-01-26T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:52:29","slug":"kenyan-film-%e2%80%98pumzi%e2%80%99-at-the-sundance-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/231911","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan film, \u2018Pumzi\u2019, at the Sundance Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Wanuri.jpg\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/film\/wanuri-kahiu-a-visionary-director\/\" >Wanuri Kahiu<\/a>, director of the award-winning movie, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/film\/wanuri-kahiu-wins-big-in-african-academy-awards\/\" >From A Whisper<\/a><\/em>, has once again come up with a winning film&#8211;a sci-fi short film, &#8216;<em>Pumzi<\/em> (<em>&#8216;air&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0 or &#8216;<em>breathe<\/em>&#8216; in Kiswahili).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_9252\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 250px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Wanuri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9252\" title=\"Wanuri Kahiu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Wanuri.jpg\" alt=\"Wanuri Kahiu\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanuri Kahiu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"more-9243\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The film shows a world after World War III, the &#8216;Water War&#8217;, where everyone is stuck in an enclosed community with their movements and thoughts closely monitored. An East African woman dares to defy the odds and flee the community in the hopes of re-establishing and restoring life outside the confines\u00a0of the walls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pumzithefilm.com\" ><em>Pumzi<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>will be showing at the Sundance Festival from January 22-30, 2010 and was one of 200 films picked for exhibition from 9,000 submissions.\u00a0 For details\u00a0 and programming information, visit the Sundance Festival <a href=\"http:\/\/sundance.bside.com\/2010\/\" >website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Wanuri Kahiu, director of the award-winning movie, From A Whisper, has once again come up with a winning film&#8211;a sci-fi short film, &#8216;Pumzi (&#8216;air&#8217;\u00a0 or &#8216;breathe&#8216; in Kiswahili).\u00a0 Wanuri Kahiu \u00a0The film shows a world after World War III, the &#8216;Water War&#8217;, where everyone is stuck in an enclosed community with their movements and thoughts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}