Hawa Essuman
TFI Support
TFI New Media Fund 2013
About
Hawa worked on TV commercials and documentaries before directing the Kenyan TV drama series Makutano Junction. Hawa’s film Soul Boy (2010) received five nominations at the 2011 African Academy Awards.
This is My Backyard: Logs of War
Silas Siakor, winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, risked everything to cut off warlord Charles Taylor from the illegal timber trade that was helping fund Liberia's 14-year civil war. Now, Siakor tries to kick-start his country’s struggling economy through sustainable logging.