
Documentary
Heights Unseen
RECA In Motion
Film allows us to step into lives, places and perspectives beyond our own. We create work that carries those experiences beyond the frame and gives audiences something to feel, remember and take with them.
Re-Tuning Cinema In Africa
From Nairobi, Outward
Our work moves between documentary, commercial film, photography and visual storytelling, but the starting point remains the same: people.
We look for the human experience inside every brief — the moment, relationship or perspective that gives an audience something to connect with.
What We Believe
We craft visual stories that move people, shape perspectives and influence behaviour.
Stories rooted here, created to travel across the continent and onto the world stage.
Nairobi, Kenya • Est. 2014
RECA

Documentary
Heights Unseen

Commercial
Commercial Stories

Photography
People & Place

Film & Education
RECA Film Program

Film
Visual Stories

Production
Stories In Motion

Behind The Scenes
Behind The Story

Photography
RECA Archive
Re-Tuning Cinema In Africa
Film, photography and visual stories shaped in Nairobi and made to travel.
What We Do
RECA approaches storytelling by first understanding the people, place and purpose behind the story. The camera comes later.
The aim is not simply to create something beautiful, but to create work capable of staying with an audience long after the final frame.
Human stories told with patience, intimacy and a strong sense of place. From early research to the final frame, we build documentaries around the people at the centre of them.
Campaigns and branded films built around story first. We work with organisations and brands to create visual work that connects with people beyond the product.
Animation gives us another language for stories that need imagination, explanation or a world that cannot be captured through a camera alone.
Portraiture, documentary photography and visual essays focused on people, environments and the moments that exist between them.
From concept development to production and post-production, we shape visual stories across different formats, audiences and platforms.
Selected Work
Film, documentary, photography and visual storytelling from across the RECA world.

Documentary
Experience the extraordinary journey of a blind climber and his friends through a story about movement, friendship and seeing the world differently.

Commercial
Visual stories shaped around people, culture and environments rather than formula.

Photography
Portraiture and documentary photography that begins with people, place and lived experience.
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Heights Unseen
Experience the extraordinary journey of a blind climber and his friends in our upcoming documentary, Heights Unseen.
Discover the story behind the film and the journey that brought it to life.
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Documentary
Heights Unseen
The Process
Behind every finished frame is a journey of questions, listening, experimentation and making.
Understand the people before defining the story.
Discover the idea hidden inside the experience.
Find the visual language that belongs to the story.
Take the idea into the world and create it.
Put the work in front of people and let it travel.
2014 — 2024
RECA began in Nairobi in 2014 and grew through film, photography, production, creative experimentation and the people who became part of its story.
Look back at the first decade — from the earliest conversations around African cinema to the productions, collaborations and creative community that followed.
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Explore the people, projects, collaborations and ideas that have shaped RECA's story.
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