Christopher King

Christopher King is an award-winning filmmaker. Australian by birth, he has lived & worked in Kenya for 13 years, having founded Circle & Square Productions with his wife Maia Lekow in Nairobi, 2009. A fluent Swahili speaker, he was awarded an African Movie Academy Award for editing, and has worked within the East African film industry as a freelance cinematographer, editor and director. Christopher’s debut feature documentary, The Letter, co-directed and produced with wife Maia, premiered at IDFA 2019 after six years of filming, having been supported by Sundance DFP, IDFA Bertha Fund, Hot Docs Blue Ice, Good Pitch Kenya, Docubox East African Documentary Fund, Visions Sud Est, and Chicken & Egg Pictures.