Chasing the Mad Lion Productions

The 2013 Kenya Presidential polls are now closed. We’ve been following social network and blog posts to keep up with the news coming out of Kenya.  We and our Kenyan…

LIVESCORE a block party, documentary premiere and concert Thursday, November 1 – 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm Memorial Hall, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Buy tickets at…

Heading to the Olympics and need a place to stay?  Consider the flat of our friend and colleague Michael Holman and he’ll donate half of the month’s rent to Carolina…

How is the Carolina for Kibera Champions League preparing for the possibility of violence in the upcoming election? What did Kiberans think about Without a Fight? What are the challenges…

Couldn’t make it to Without a Fight’s World Premiere in Berlin? Don’t worry! It’s coming to home to North Carolina for The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Join us for…

Given that March 8th is International Women’s Day, and as we prepare for the World Premiere of  Without a Fight in Berlin at the 11 MM Film Festival,  we can’t…

Without a Fight is almost ready for the big screen! After more than a year of editing, we’re just about ready to share the story of Adan, Nicholas and the…

When we first set out for Kibera, cameras in hand, we meant to create a film profiling Carolina for Kibera (CFK) and its founders. But once we arrived in the…

When Phil and Brad Cook of the Durham-based band Megafaun energetically agreed to scoring Without a Fight, we couldn’t have been more excited. Working with them throughout the process of…

Carolina for Kibera Co-Founder and Veteran Rye Barcott’s memoir It Happened on the Way to War explores the contradiction between fighting war and waging peace-highly appropriate fuel for discussion on…

I consider myself fortunate to have had the opportunity to attend Silver Docs, a film festival and film makers conference held in Silver Spring, MD annually in June. I can’t…

For me, it started with an email, from a lovely, fierce, confident Canadian woman: From: ksmurf Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 4:53 PM To: bkutchma Subject: Carolina for Kibera Hi…

We, the filmmakers of Chasing the Mad Lion, extend an invitation to you to become an honorary member of our crew. Eh, what? It’s kind of like getting an honorary degree from Harvard. Only, instead of getting a diploma from Harvard

Well, it rained in the morning at breakfast and it’s pouring now at bedtime.  We are all extremely tired but are pulling out reserve energy by channeling CFK co-founder Rye…

At the airport, en route to Kenya for our final production shoot, as Jason Arthurs and I are checking in our bags we notice that each of our four checked…

AD Andrew Johnson has hit the ground running. Read more on his blog: Maisha Nairobi: Roo in Africa

The truck swings back and forth as we navigate our way through the muddy puddles to Andrew’s home stay. We arrive right around 6:45 and Janet wastes no time in making sure that things are running on schedule.

The Chasing the Mad Lion production team is in a tizzy, getting ready for our final video shoot in Kibera.

We stumbled upon this powerful, must see video:  If this country burns, we burn with it. What do you think? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCpfXbCjM5c&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

TED Curator Chris Anderson’s latest TED talk looks at how video is powering global innovation. He profiles and connects with a youth group in Kibera.

Back in 2009, Rye Barcott posted this gem of an entry to the TED blog saying ” Possibility is at the core of TED.”

We welcome you to this site which chronicles the production of Chasing the Mad Lion, a feature length documentary