For the Women Driving the Booming African Screen Industries, the ‘Time Is Now’
variety.comDorothy Ghettuba remembers the moment that changed her life. The Kenya-born entrepreneur was traveling with friends in Zambia when their driver fell asleep at the wheel, sending their van careening off the road and into a tree.
The group left the accident unscathed, but the brush with death rattled Ghettuba. “Things can happen to you that make you pause,” she tells Variety. “And that was a thing that made me pause and say to myself, ‘If today was my last day, have I lived my best life?’”Ghettuba had been working at a venture capital firm in Canada, but she left her job and returned to Kenya, where she began to chase a lifelong dream to join the entertainment industry and tell the kinds of stories that spoke to her.
Within a few years she’d produced her first pilot for public broadcaster KBC and was soon developing a slate of series through her production shingle, Spielworks Media.
Fast-forward a decade and the veteran producer was tapped by Netflix to be its head of African originals, as the streaming giant’s push for global content landed on African shores.
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