Let's Make Docs

Brief Description

"Let’s Make Docs: Empowering Young Voices through Documentary Filmmaking. 🎬🌟 This transformative initiative by CinéFEMMES Rwanda equips post-high school girls with the skills to create impactful documentaries, harnessing the power of visual storytelling for advocacy. 

Initiated during the 4th URUSARO International Women Film Festival in October 2019, this project brings together girls from various high schools within Kigali. Through hands-on training, mentorship, and creative exploration, Let's Make Docs empowers young minds to address pressing societal issues, share their unique perspectives, and drive positive change. 

This Documentary Training encompasses themes such as Climate Change, Culture, Social Cohesion, Humanity, Health, and Education. Our ultimate aim is to support young Rwandan women in their pursuit of a fulfilling career in the filmmaking industry, simultaneously addressing women's issues and advancing gender parity. #Let'sMakeDocs #EmpoweringYoungVoices #DocumentaryFilmmaking"

Insights from Participants

Blanche MANEGABE

My aim is to gain knowledge and be exposed to share with others. Women have been taken apart, most especially when it comes to science and technology. At the end of this training, I strive to be one of the existing proofs that women can do more and better.



"Blanche MANEGABE is spearheading a project titled 'Fashion Perception.' In this venture, she delves into the notion that fashion should captivate a broad audience, particularly buyers, through their sartorial choices. Her goal is to foster a sense of acceptance and appreciation for fashion as an art form. Exploring the diverse realms of colours, designs, and all the intricacies that compose our attire, Blanche's project resonates with a vast array of interests. With her sights set on creating a documentary film, her project is poised to shed light on the captivating world of fashion."


Charlene MIND’JE

"The most important thing I've learned by now in Let's Make Docs is being responsible for one's work by consulting varied sources of information and looking for significant experience in Directing/ filmmaking." 

Charlene MIND'JE develops a documentary film project on Air Pollution. For her, this scourge is one of the biggest problems that the World faces in large part. She believes that if men continue to only focus on development and all related practices remain intact, Strong consequences will turn back to all living things in the biosphere.

Cynthia UMUTONI

"I've learned how to formulate my ideas and thoughts so that, the time I will be sharing them with others, they will be more understandable." 

Cynthia UMUTONI works on a documentary project focusing on Humanity. Her observation describes how people, as long as they stay on the way of losing human values, will find themselves in a world where people pretend to know what Humanity is. She adds that, nowadays, Humanity seems to be less. Society is losing its factors today, and Cynthia is convinced her documentary film will contribute to the change.

H. Nicole NSABIMANA

"At the end of Let's Make Docs! Training, I wish to be able to create, direct and produce documentaries." She agrees with the saying that "Opportunity comes once in life". Nicole admits that she has to use this opportunity and mentions that "there are people who need this training and can't get it even if they pay."

Hamissa Nicole focuses on Education via a project bridging Passion and Talent where she calls parents and tutors to follow close what their kids are interested in so that they help them do what they like in their future life and, in the end, be able to expand their vision.

Suzannella ISHIMWE

"My goal is to be able to make my own documentary film, and I am looking forward to doing so." As she says, she started yet to learn how this training would be. With time, she adds, "I am getting more and more interested and want to know more, and this is what pushes me to stay focused.”

Suzannella ISHIMWE is developing a historical-cultural story tackling the common lifestyle of the population living in BUGESERA (District in Rwanda and Region in Burundi), as it constitutes the neighbourhood between Rwanda and Burundi.

Introduction to Let's Make Docs