The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Kenya
This page contains a list of the greatest Kenyan Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 1,581 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Kenya. This makes Kenya the birth place of the 93rd most number of Film Directors behind Venezuela and Lebanon.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kenyan Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Kenyan Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Gurinder Chadha (1960 - )
With an HPI of 35.62, Gurinder Chadha is the most famous Kenyan Film Director. Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Gurinder Kaur Chadha, (born 10 January 1960) is a Kenyan-born British film director of Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in England. The common theme in her work showcases the trials of Indian women living in the UK and how they must reconcile their converging traditional and modern cultures. Although many of her films seem like simple quirky comedies about Indian women, they actually address many social and emotional issues, especially ones faced by immigrants caught between two worlds. Much of her work also consists of adaptations from book to film, but with a different flair. She is best known for the films Bhaji on the Beach (1993), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Bride and Prejudice (2004), Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008), It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010) and Viceroy's House (2017). Her latest features are the biographical musical comedy-drama Blinded by the Light (2019) and the television show Beecham House.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as film directors born between 1960 and 1960. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living film directors include Gurinder Chadha.
