If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot.
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.
