Mark Maina

🔥 Big love to the entire cast, crew, writers, producers and post-production team behind MTV Shuga Mashariki. Honoured to see the show take home the Kalasha Best People’s Choice Award and the AMVCA Best Writing Award 🏆✨. To my friend @njuekevin well done bro. 😎 Beautiful storytelling always finds its people. I’m proud to have contributed to this journey as part of the post-production team. Huge congratulations to everyone who poured heart, sleepless nights and creativity into making this happen ❤️. #MTVShuga #KalashaAwards #AMVCA #AfricanStorytelling #KenyanCinema MgreenEntertainment

Munich has such a calm confidence about it. Beautiful in a quiet way. You walk through places like Marienplatz, sit near the Isar, wander into the English Garden which is somehow bigger than some actual forests 😄 and the city just slowly grows on you. Beautiful architecture, clean streets, people out cycling everywhere and somehow even the silence feels organized. Really enjoying this city. 🇩🇪

Thank you to @dokfest ❤️ for welcoming The People Shall and for creating space for such meaningful conversations. The screening, the panel, the people in the room… it was all special. Grateful to share the panel with the great @stellanyanzi , her energy, enthusiasm and knowledge is ever so invaluable, super-talented director @nitumwesiga who directed “The Woman Who Poked The Leopard, this was a work of art. Thank you Maria for your input on the panels d for what Misereor is doing. Barbara, thank you so much for putting this together and for moderating the session so elegantly. This film continues to travel and with it, we carry Nick Wambugu @nickwambugu (producer, Co-director and DOP). It means a lot to honour him in spaces like this. I wish you were here bro. 🥲 For many reasons. Well done to the whole team and I cannot thank you enough for all the effort you have put into this film. I’m grateful for this journey 🙏🏽 We keep going. #ThePeopleShall #dokfestmünchen #NickWambugu #kenyancinema

Today is the day. The People Shall has its German Premiere today at DOK.fest München 2026. Location: HFF Kino 1, Munich 3:00 PM Local Time A story from Kenya, a new audience and a conversation that keeps growing. We’re also glad that one of the film’s directors, @_mark_maina , is in Munich representing the film for this special screening and the conversation that follows. This moment also belongs to @nickwambugu His voice and the work he put into this film and his spirit are part of this film and it means a lot to carry him with us into rooms like this. If you’re in Munich, come through. #ThePeopleShall #DOKfestMuenchen #GermanPremiere #KenyanCinema #documentaryfilm

African Encounters – Films and Dialogues on Resistance and Activism ▪️ THE WOMAN WHO POKED THE LEOPARD (DE, UG, US, ZA 2025) by Patience Nitumwesiga ( @nitumwesiga ) ▪️ ENOUGH IS ENOUGH (CD, FR 2026) by Elisé Sawasawa ( @elisesawasawa ) ▪️ THE PEOPLE SHALL (KE 2025) by Mark Maina ( @_mark_maina ) and Nick Wambugu 🔸 AFRICAN ENCOUNTERS PANEL DISCUSSION: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! In a panel discussion following the film THE PEOPLE SHALL, we invite the Munich audience to engage in a dialogue with filmmakers Mark Maina, Patience Nitumwesiga as well as protagonist Dr. Stella Nyanzi ( @stellanyanzi ) and expert Maria Klatte. Sunday, 10 May, 16.30 | HFF - Kino 1 🔸AFRICAN ENCOUNTERS SPECIAL: WIM WENDERS AND KING AMPAW | Wim Wenders and King Ampaw will each present one of their films and engage in a dialogue with one another as well as with current students Kokutekeleza Musebeni ( @koku_musebeni )(HFF München, @hffmuenchen ) and Joanna Adu-Amoani (UniMAC-IFT, @unimac.ift ), initiated and curated by Jacqueline Nsiah ( @yaa.abrefi ). Sunday, 10 May, 19.30 | HFF - Audimax 🔸 African Encounters & BIPOC EURODOC Meet DOK.forum: A think tank in which we exchange ideas on filmmaking in the Global South. Friday, 8 May, 14.30 | HFF - Seminarraum 2 Check out the full programme on our website (link in Bio) 👀 #dokfest2026 #AfricanEncounters

The last time I won a Kalasha was in 2015. Since then, I've taken the award winning short film, Neophobia to Cannes, where it became the only African film screening there that year. That journey introduced me to great people like Barry Jenkins, and yes, I also got to meet Will Smith. Neophobia went on to win 14 awards. I also directed and edited The Editor, which won over 6 awards.The journey then took me to Germany where I studied further film at the prestigious Film akadamie Baden-Wurttemberg and worked on several projects after school while there, then to Nigeria, where I worked with EbonyLife whose projects include titles like Blood Sisters, The King’s Horseman, The Wedding Party and Oloture and now back home again. When I returned, I wanted to reintroduce myself through work. Big Girl Small World as Senior Editor. MTV Shuga as Editor. And now The People Shall, which I directed with Nick Wambugu. So this win carries pride. It carries gratitude. It carries a lot of heart. On Saturday night, The People Shall won Best Documentary and I won Best Editor for the film. It feels like a return, like the work is speaking again. And the journey is still moving. The People Shall is also nominated for the AMVCA and selected for DOK.fest München, which I’m deeply excited about. ❤️ What a beautiful way to say, I’m back. #ThePeopleShall #KalashaAwards #BestEditor #BestDocumentary #NickWambugu AMVCA DOKfestMuenchen

We WOOOON ❤️ The People Shall has won Best Documentary at the Kalasha International Film & TV Awards 2026 and Mark Maina has won Best Editor for the film. We are deeply grateful for this recognition and for everyone who has supported and walked the journey of this film with us. This is also a special moment for Nick Wambugu, whose spirit and work remain a part of The People Shall. Thank you to the cast, crew, partners, supporters, and audiences who have believed in the film and kept the conversation moving. This one is for the people. #ThePeopleShall #KalashaAwards #BestDocumentary #BestEditor #KenyanCinema

Last night at the Kalasha Awards, Mark Maina won Best Editor in The People Shall, which also won Best Documentary. Thank you to everyone who supported and believed in us, this win is yours too! 🤍 To the team, this was built with heart. We celebrate today and tomorrow we keep telling powerful stories.✊ Asante sana! 🙏🏽 #kalashaawards2026 #thepeopleshall #postproductionkenya #awards

A big shoutout to The Nomad Film Society for bringing The People Shall to Cheche Books! 👏🫶

Every room has a story. On 26th March 2026, at Africa Legal Network Kenya, we shared one and opened the floor to many more. From panelists to audience voices, the conversation didn’t just stay on screen, it lived in the room. #filmandlaw #postproductionkenya #throwback

WINNING 🥳🥳🔥. Honoured to have won the CreatiAfrica Biz Award 2026 in the category of Youth Creative Entrepreneur of the Year through our company Mgreen Entertainment. This win means a lot to us. It is a celebration of the journey, the vision and the work we continue to build through storytelling, creativity and commitment to Africa’s creative economy. Thank you to IEDF Africa, the CreatiAfrica Awards and everyone who continues to believe in Mgreen. I'm grateful, humbled and inspired.

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