When a Hollywood director visited Nairobi

Last week, Hollywood-based director and screenwriter Professor Nathan Marshall was in the country in a closed door screen writers meeting hosted by M-Net. Marshall is best known in Kenya for his work on the TV show Entourage.
The six-day Nairobi Screenwriters’ Workshop saw interested writers, producers and industry professionals from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda attending lectures and completing writing exercises as part of the channel’s ongoing commitment to fostering African filmmaking talent.
At the workshop, Marshall covered both production and scripting elements. Marshall’s background was in television production before he joined the California-based American Intercontinental University’s Media Production Department, lecturing in both hands-on production and theoretical aspects of television.
Marshall’s recent projects include a comedy screenplay that is currently being shopped around Hollywood and a thriller set in New York City that he is attached to direct.
Last month he directed a comedic television pilot “in the vein of Entourage about disgruntled screenwriters.” He also worked as an Editor and Field Cameraman for National Geographic Television. Kenyan Participants at the workshop included: Anthony Thandi, Carole Keingati, Charles Ouda, Damaris Irungu, Mark Muhathi, Mona Ombogo-Scott, Natasha Likimani, Peter Kuria, Reuben Odanga, Serah Mwihaki and Victor Ogollah.