Kimberley Duband

What is the documentary about?
This documentary follows four architects, passionate about the education of girls in the third world, who respond to a request from a remote Kenyan community to help them build a girls school. After two years of careful planning and fundraising, the architects arrive in Kenya excited and ready to start work. Whilst things on the surface appear to be positive, they begin to experience opposition from disgruntled community members and soon realise that their trustworthy Kenyan business partner is surreptitiously manipulating the community to derail the development. The architects must overcome insurmountable odds to keep their project alive, but when their own lives are threatened, they have no choice but to leave Kenya with their dream unrealised. This observational documentary tracks the architect’s journey of discovery as they learn that helping others is more complex than it seems.

THE ROAD TO TUMAINI (hope) - Watch the Trailer here

Our Team

Rochelle Oshlack (Editor)- One of Australia's finest editors, Rochelle has worked in post production for film and television for over twenty-three years. Her recent credits as Film Editor include the box office hit musical feature film Bran Nue Dae, the critically acclaimed documentary series First Australians and the UN Peace Media award winner, Lani's Story.

Rochelle has worked both in the US and the UK. She has worked on films such as Phillip Noyce's Catch A Fire, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet, and was nominated for an AACTA award in 2012 for Editing The Tall Man, a feature length documentary based on Chloe Hooper’s multi-award winning novel about the 2004 Palm Island death in custody.

We feel so incredibly lucky that Rochelle is on bard to edit The Road to Tumaini (hope) and can't wait to get into the edit suite with her.

Jim Lounsbury (Co-Prodcer)- Born in Seattle, Jim Lounsbury grew up telling stories through pictures.
In 1999 he moved to Australia and began working as a filmmaker His films have played at numerous International Film Festivals, including Brooklyn, Palm Springs, Beverly Hills, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. His Documentaries have been played on the BBC, Discovery and in Australia on Foxtel and the ABC.

Where are we at so far?
We have been to Kenya and filmed the documentary
We have done further filming of interviews back in Australia
We have edited the trailer
We have the music being composed
Now... we must raise the final part of the funding to get the film edited and completed.

What we need?
$31,000 to get this film across the line, $15,000 of which we hope will come from everyone out there in crowd-funding land who is passionate about creating a change in attitudes and providing education and equality for girls in the third world.

How you can be involved?
Click the button on the right hand side of the screen and donate a few dollars or more
Email this page to your friends or people you feel would be in a position to donate funds to this project.
OR if you can't donate, that's cool....just show your support by spreading the word.

Money made from the documentary?
The proceeds made from the sale and worldwide distribution of The Road to Tumaini will be donated to bricks+cartwheels, who are working tirelessly to create sustainable schooling facilities for girls in rural Kenya.