Yuhi Amuli

Yuhi Amuli is a Film Director, Screenwriter and Producer from Rwanda. His directorial debut feature film A TASTE OF OUR LAND (2020) premiered at the Pan African film festival in Los Angles and won (...) the Jury Award for Best First Narrative Feature Film. The film went on to screen at various other film festivals worldwide and won the African Movie Academy Awards (2020) for Best First Feature Film by a Director. In 2017, through his independent production company IZACU, he produced NAMELESS, a feature film that took part in TAKMIL, a post- production workshop at Carthage film festival in Tunisia, and was picked for distribution by Orange Studios (France). His three short films ISHABA (2015), AKARWA (2017) and KAZUNGU (2018) have been screened and won awards at various film festivals worldwide, including Durban film festival in South Africa, Amiens international film festival in France, Cinemas des Vues d’Afrique in Canada, Luxor African film festival in Egypt, Lausanne film festival in Switzerland and Rwanda film festival, where ISHABA and KAZUNGU won best short film in 2016 and 2019 respectively. He is an Alumni of Maisha film Lab(2015), One file Day films (2017) and Toronto Filmmaker Lab (2020) which he attended with his second feature film EXODUS, currently in development.