Celebrated Kenyan film producer and co-founder of the Nairobi-based Spielworks Media, an African production company, Dorothy Ghettuba has been appointed as Netflix Manager International Originals.
Her most famous production locally was the Swahili TV series ‘Sumu La Penzi’.
Here is ‘Sumu la Penzi‘ trailer whose story revolves around four women caught in an web of forbidden and intricate relationships as they run the City of Nairobi, the way they know how.
Born and raised in Kenya, 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.
She returned to Kenya shortly after her thirtieth birthday. Ghettuba claims that her original passion was acting, but when she was not selected for roles, she turned to the production side of filmmaking.
She launched Spielworks Media in 2009.
She claims that her dream is to turn the company into an African version of the US motion picture studio Universal Pictures.
In 2016, she was named among C. Hub magazine’s 100 most influential creative personalities. She is also a 2016 Archbishop Tutu Fellow with the African Leadership Institute.[
The producer, who is wife to Oyunga Pala, took to her social media to share the news to elated netizens.