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S6 Ep 16 -Kevin Schmutzler -"NAWI: Dear Future Me"
NAWI: Dear Future Me is a multi-award winning feature film about the dreams of a girl growing up in remote Kenya. An ambitious young girl whose father then sells her off to a stranger for a herd of goats.
It is an educational feature film project that was shot in arid landscapes of Turkana. Together with the NGO Learning Lions, we try to give an insight into the issue of illegal child marriage.
NAWI won an Africa Academy Award and was selected as the Kenyan submission for the Oscars 2025. It was named Best Film at Raindance in London, at the Pan African Film Fest in Los Angeles, Stockholm International Film Festival Junior, and several others. It secured a Special Jury Award at Beijing International Film Festival, and won Audience Awards at multiple festivals. The project also received the German Film Award for Peace.
According to UNICEF 640.000.000 girls and women alive have been married underage. Together with Learning Lions, Girls First Fund and Girls not Brides we are collecting donations to combat child marriage by funding girl schools, building Safe Houses, and using the film to engage discussions with communities .
Toby and Kevin Schmutzler are a German writer-, director- and producer duo based in Munich. Together they run the production company FilmCrew Media, dedicated to making films that inspire real-world change.
A film on the road to the Oscars
Their biggest international breakthrough to date is "NAWI: Dear Future Me" (2024), a Kenyan-German coming-of-age drama. Set in the remote Turkana region of northern Kenya, the film follows a young girl resisting a forced marriage in her pursuit of education. NAWI was selected as Kenya's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, and after a nearly two-year festival run that gathered 31 international awards, reached German and U.S. cinemas in 2026.
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By Nancy Mulemwa SiisiiNAWI: Dear Future Me is a multi-award winning feature film about the dreams of a girl growing up in remote Kenya. An ambitious young girl whose father then sells her off to a stranger for a herd of goats.
It is an educational feature film project that was shot in arid landscapes of Turkana. Together with the NGO Learning Lions, we try to give an insight into the issue of illegal child marriage.
NAWI won an Africa Academy Award and was selected as the Kenyan submission for the Oscars 2025. It was named Best Film at Raindance in London, at the Pan African Film Fest in Los Angeles, Stockholm International Film Festival Junior, and several others. It secured a Special Jury Award at Beijing International Film Festival, and won Audience Awards at multiple festivals. The project also received the German Film Award for Peace.
According to UNICEF 640.000.000 girls and women alive have been married underage. Together with Learning Lions, Girls First Fund and Girls not Brides we are collecting donations to combat child marriage by funding girl schools, building Safe Houses, and using the film to engage discussions with communities .
Toby and Kevin Schmutzler are a German writer-, director- and producer duo based in Munich. Together they run the production company FilmCrew Media, dedicated to making films that inspire real-world change.
A film on the road to the Oscars
Their biggest international breakthrough to date is "NAWI: Dear Future Me" (2024), a Kenyan-German coming-of-age drama. Set in the remote Turkana region of northern Kenya, the film follows a young girl resisting a forced marriage in her pursuit of education. NAWI was selected as Kenya's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, and after a nearly two-year festival run that gathered 31 international awards, reached German and U.S. cinemas in 2026.
Connect/follow Kevin
@kevinschmutzler
https://www.filmcrew.media/schmutzler
Connect/Follow Concrete Pastures Podcast/ Nancy
APVA Nominee
Woman Podcasters Award Nominee
Buy our Merchandise Concrete Pastures t-shirts
https://vetclothing.com/collections/sponsermerch/products/concrete-pastures-t-shirt
Sponsored by Betterhelp-Go https://betterhelp.com/concretepastures for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help in as little as 48 hours.
Integrating Services -https://linktr.ee/concretepastures Thank you -
Download Concrete Pastures APP -
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hr.apps.n244800&pli=1
Instagram -https://www.instagram.com/concrete_pastures/
Facebook -https://www.facebook.com/concretepastures
TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@concrete_pastures
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWre86K6EQVx0gycbauHHoQ
GUEST FORMS If you are interested in being a guest please fill out form below:https://forms.gle/rmxy4MzziyVCW8nx5
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