I Want to Be a Pilot

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I Want to Be a Pilot
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Directed byDiego Quemada-Diez
Written byDiego Quemada-Diez
Produced byDiego Quemada-Diez
Michel Ruben
Martha Sosa Elizondo
Christian Valdelièvre
StarringJoseph Kyalo Kioko
Collins Otieno
Gaudencia Ayuma Shichenga
Kepha Onduru, Joseph Kyalo Kioko
CinematographyDiego Quemada-Diez
Edited byKim Bica
Music by Toumani Diabaté
Release date
  • 22 February 2006 (2006-02-22)
Running time
10 minutes
Countries Kenya
Mexico
Spain
Language English
Budget€14,000

I Want to Be a Pilot is a 2006 award-winning Kenyan - Mexican short film docufiction written and directed by Diego Quemada-Diez. The movie has earned more than 50 international prizes, including the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival and has participated in over 200 film festivals such as Sundance, Locarno, Telluride, Edinburgh, Amiens, Los Angeles, São Paulo, Manhattan, Silverdocs, Bermuda, San Francisco. [1]

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Plot

The short film story tells about dreams of Omondi, a young orphan boy living in the slums of Kenya’s capital. A powerful and poetic filmic protest from a member of the crew that made The Constant Gardener. This award-winning Kenyan-Mexican short film documentary shows a poverty-stricken boy in one of the poorest parts of Kenya who looks up towards the heavens and dreams of being an airline pilot, of being able to fly. [2] The youngster is seen sifting through the metropolitan slums' trash while a child's voice-over reads, "Sunday was my last meal." It is Wednesday today. Only the narrator, who was not an orphan himself, was chosen from among the local performers employed by director Quemada-Diez. The filmmaker describes how he was astounded when the boy—or any other youngster in that circumstance—thanked him for just listening.

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Awards

Awarding OrganisatonCategoryYearNomineeResult
Amiens International Film FestivalBest Short Film2007I Want to be a PilotWon
Bermuda International Film FestivalBest Short Film2007I Want to be a PilotWon
Carrousel International du FilmShort Film2007I Want to be a PilotWon
Heartland International Film FestivalDramatic Short2006I Want to be a PilotWon
Heartland International Film FestivalBest Short Film2006I Want to be a PilotWon
Cleveland International Film FestivalBest Documentary Short Film2007I Want to be a PilotWon
Larrissa Mediterranean Festival of New FilmmakersMediterranean Competition2007I Want to be a PilotWon
Manhattan Short Film FestivalBest Film2007I Want to be a PilotWon
São Paulo International Film FestivalBest Foreign Short Film2006I Want to be a PilotWon
Ashland Independent Film FestivalBest Short2008I Want to be a PilotWon
Sarasota Film FestivalKids' Jury Award2007I Want to be a PilotWon
Silverdocs Documentary FestivalsHonorable Mention - Short Film2007I Want to be a PilotWon
Los Angeles Film FestivalBest Short Film2006I Want to be a PilotWon
Alu Cine Latin Film + Media Art FestivalBest Film2007I Want to be a PilotWon

See also

References

  1. ↑ Quemada-Diez, Diego (29 June 2006), I Want to Be a Pilot (Short), Collins Otieno, Gaudencia Ayuma Schichenga, Kepha Onduru, retrieved 4 September 2025
  2. ↑ "I Want To Be A Pilot". Movies that Matter. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  3. ↑ "Reframe Peterborough international film festival 2010: I want to be a pilot". Reframe film festival. Archived from the original on 18 January 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2012.


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