Faith Musembi

Bio

Faith Musembi is a Kenya-born, South Africa-raised, US-educated writer, director and editor with a passion for storytelling through motion pictures. Faith graduated from Emerson College with a Master of Arts degree in the Visual Media Arts. Her thesis film, Dawn, which she wrote and directed, was an official selection for the Roxbury International Film Festival in 2010. Her feature script This, Our Africa was a quarterfinalist in the prestigious 2012 Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship competition. Her recent works include: Baileys Weddings with Nonny Gathoni and Omosh – which was selected as a finalist in the 2016 Kenya National Drama Festival. As the creative driving force behind Faimus Productions in Nairobi, Kenya, Faith is in constant pursuit of the wedded bliss evoked by the perfect marriage of color, moving images and sound.

Reflection

When Ben Kiruthi asked me to film his wedding, I was beside myself with elation. Then anxiety quickly set in as my eyes started to focus in on the reality and magnitude of the request. See the thing is, Ben is one of Kenya’s top wedding photographers. So I knew that there would be certain lofty expectations regarding his wedding video.

With my anxiety in tow, I made my way to the bride’s house when the wedding day dawned. Within minutes of filming my first few frames, my anxiety had dissipated. There was laughter, there was love – and our cameras simply rolled. So did the good times. By the time the couple were taking a selfie with Ben’s camera after their first kiss, it was obvious to everyone that we were witness to something pure and rare: true love. In that moment, I realized that even if Faith and Ben had been born in a different generation, they would have somehow found each other and fallen in love.