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I WANT TO BE A PILOT (2006)
Kenya-Mexico-Spain
Running time: 11min 30 sec
35mm, Dolby SRD
1:66
SYNOPSIS :
Deep in the slums of East Africa, a 12-year-old boy has only one dream.
I WANT TO BE A PILOT TITLE CREDITS:
In memory of David Mugambi
Teacher at Raila Educational Center
Poem written by
Diego Quemada-Diez
Based on Testimonies from 50 orphan kids from Raila Educational Center (Kibera, Nairobi)
Voice by
Collins Otieno
Cast
Omondi—————————Collins Otieno
Nurse—————–Gaudencia Ayuma Shichenga
Classroom teacher——————Kepha Onduru
Pastor————————-Joseph Kyalo Kioko
Other cast
Stephen Benz Alal, Merea Adido Oyogi, Julia Adhambo Alal,
Charles Kongara Arori, Lucy Wairimu Mumbi, Jackson Ngumbau
Makau
Crew
Film Editing by
Kim Bica
Voice over editing by
Aura Bogado
Kim Bica
Associate Producers
Martha Sosa
Christian Valdeliévre
Michel Ruben
Directed, Shot & Produced by
Diego Quemada-Diez
Assistant Director, UPM & Locations
Peter Gachanta Njoraa
Artist Painting “I Want To Be A Pilot”
Choti Simeon Nyamweya
Production Assistant
William Oguto
Transportation
David Mwaura
Music Supervisor
Rhonda Jones
Sound Recordist
Mark Kihara
Sound Editor
Jake Eberle
Sound Mixer
I-Kai Lin
Sound Editing/Mixing at
Sonic Factory inc.
Online/Finishing
Hammer Creative Advertising
Online editing
Michael Black
Chuck Caserza
Assistant editors
Keala Sato
Chris Hall
Titles by
Jeff Compton
Negative by
Kodak
Kodachrome
Telecine
Modern Video Film
Digital Negative
D-Film
Film Laboratory
Technicolor
Color Timer
Aiden Stanford
Website
Juanjo Junoy
Fernando Gonzalez
Special thanks to
Orphan kids of Kibera, Nairobi
All tribes and all people of Kibera
Chief of Kibera
David Mugambi
Chairman Raila Educational Center
Emmanuel Momanyi (Director raila Educational Center)
Cesar Charlone
Fernando Meirelles
Simon Channing Williams
Tracey Seaward
Martha Sosa and Carlos Hagerman
Stuart Wilson
Becca Gatrell
Shaleen Tethal
Naomi Moran
Toumani Diabate
Rhonda Jones and Angela Jones
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Louise Robinson, Aisha Kahlil,
Arnaé, Shirley Childress Saxton, Carol Maillard, Nitanju
Bolade Casel and Ysaye Maria Bamwell
Seth Grossman
Saar Klein
Jonathan Dumont and World Food Programme
Judith Gray and US Library of Congress
Dolby laboratories
Lavern Shipp Baldwin and family
Mark Pierce, Chuck Caserza and Michael Black
Lupita
Aura Bogado and KPFK
Mario Tafur
Howard Rabinowitz
Samuel Lehmer
Pei Ying Lin
Peter Smerdon, Robin Jackson
Marisa Diez, Mireya Masó and Luisa Ortinez
Magella Crosignani and Matty Libatique
Laurie Parker
The Film-Makers wish to thank Technicolor for providing the
digital negative and release prints
TECHNICOLOR
Mary Ann Fialkowski
Richard Andrews
Mike Doggett
Anton Linecker
Michael Lehman
Aiden Stanford
Jim Carter
Music
“DENKO”
Performed by Sweet Honey In The Rock
Traditional, arranged by Nitanju Bolade Casel
Published by Clear Ice Music, BMI
Courtesy of Rounder Records
By arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group
“GO TO SLEEP”
Sung by Harriet McClintockFrom the Rounder Records album, Afro-American Blues and
Game Songs, CD1513
Recording from the Archive of Folk Culture,
Library of Congress
“ALLA L’AA KE”
Written and performed by Toumani Diabate
Published by Rykomusic Ltd
(P) 1988 Rykodisc Int. Ltd
Taken from the Hannibal Records release “Kaira”
“SEA LION WOMAN”
Sung by Katherine & Christine Shipp
From the Rounder Records album, Afro-American Blues and
Game Songs, CD1513
Recording from the Archive of Folk Culture,
Library of Congress
“GUIDE ME O THOU GREAT JEHOVAH”
Sung by members of the Mt. Olivet Old Regular Baptist
Church
Led by Ike Caudill
Produced and recorded by Alan Lomax
Courtesy of The Alan Lomax Archive / Rounder Records
By arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group
“TESTIMONY”
Performed by Sweet Honey In The Rock
Lyrics and music by Ferron
Published by Nemesis Publishing, BMI
Courtesy of Rounder Records
By arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group
“I Want To Be A Pilot”, Copyright 2006, Diego Quemada-Diez/
Kinetic Eye inc. 2006