Dorothy Ghettuba

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Dorothy Ghettuba
Born1979
Kenya
NationalityKenyan
CitizenshipKenyan
Alma materAndrews University
Occupation(s)Film and TV entrepreneur

Dorothy Ghettuba (born 1979) [1] is a Kenyan Film and TV entrepreneur. She is currently the Director, Original Series for Africa at Netflix [2] She is a co-founder of the Nairobi-based Spielworks Media, an African production company launched in 2009. [3] In 2016, she was named among C. Hub magazine's 100 most influential creative personalities. [4] She is also a 2016 Archbishop Tutu Fellow with the African Leadership Institute. [5]

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Biography

Born and raised in Kenya, [6] Ghettuba studied communications and political science at Andrews University in Michigan, USA. After her graduation, she spent several years living in Canada, where she worked for a period with a venture capital fund. [7] She returned to Kenya shortly after her thirtieth birthday. [8] Ghettuba claims that her original passion was acting, but when she was not selected for roles, she turned to the production side of filmmaking. [9]

She quit her job at a venture capital firm in Canada to pursue her passion in filmmaking. [10] Gettuba-Pala joined a local TV show as a producer before moving on to establish Spielworks Media, a local entertainment production and content creation company for television and digital platforms operating in East and Central Africa. [11] Ghettuba-Pala is also the co-founder of Keja TV, a social media channel on Facebook and YouTube. [12] Ghettuba-Pala is dedicated to developing creative talent and quality talent and as such has won many accolades for 18 television shows, 20 web shows and over 40 movies. [13] Some of her renown projects include a popular Kiswahili TV show, Penzi la Sumu. Other films that she has produced are Lies that Bind, Saints and Higher Learning [14] . The film mogul landed a job at Netflix as manager international originals in March 2019 [15] and was also appointed by the Kenyan government as chairperson Kenya Film Commission Board in May 2019. [16] Ghettuba Pala is married to a Kenyan journalist Oyunga.

Spielworks Media

She launched Spielworks Media in 2009. [17] She claims that her dream is to turn the company into an African version of the US motion picture studio Universal Pictures. [18]

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