Having been born and raised in the Democratic Republic of Congo, filmmaker Maliyamungu Muhande feels that it’s a privilege to be able to express herself through her art. That’s why the documentary filmmaker is sure to pay her knowledge forward.
This summer, just after completing a graduate program at New York City’s The New School, Muhande drove an hour and a half to Monticello, New York, to lead a six-week filmmaking workshop with eight teenagers. She partnered with the ENGN Civic Creative Center and Sullivan County Center for Workforce Development to provide the booms, cameras, software, and lighting that make it possible to learn the ins and outs of filmmaking, from conception to post-production.
While filmmaking is at the center of this program, according to Muhande, it is about so much more than making art. She believes that teaching the process of filmmaking is also a way to teach kids that they have the ability to create something from nothing — and to make their dreams come true.
