Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi

By Robin Steedman

Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, is home to something extraordinary and unlikely: in this city, the most critically acclaimed filmmakers-both directors and producers-are women. Yet, across the globe, women make up less than 10 percent of film directors. In Creative Hustling, Robin Steedman takes a closer look at these remarkable women filmmakers, viewing them as auteurs as well as entrepreneurs, who are taking the lead in creating a vibrant, and atypical, screen media industry. To understand their achievement, Steedman theorizes hustling as not only a practice born out of necessity but also an inventive labor in its own right-one that can create new spaces of community by carving new entrepreneurial pathways.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262544830
• ISBN13: 9780262544832
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"