RECA — Re-Tuning Cinema in Africa
RECA — Re-Tuning Cinema in Africa
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RECA In Motion

Stories Are
Meant To Move.

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

Made Here.
Built To Travel.

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.

Film•Documentary•Commercial•Photography

What We Believe

We Believe
Stories
change the World.

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

Heights Unseen

Documentary

Heights Unseen

Commercial Stories

Commercial

Commercial Stories

People & Place

Photography

People & Place

RECA Film Program

Film & Education

RECA Film Program

Visual Stories

Film

Visual Stories

Stories In Motion

Production

Stories In Motion

Behind The Story

Behind The Scenes

Behind The Story

RECA Archive

Photography

RECA Archive

Re-Tuning Cinema In Africa

Stories
Live Here.

Film, photography and visual stories shaped in Nairobi and made to travel.

What We Do

Every Story
Becomes A
New Mission.

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

Stories You Can Enter

Heights Unseen

Documentary

Heights Unseen

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

Stories In Motion

Commercial

Stories In Motion

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

People & Place

Photography

People & Place

Portraiture and documentary photography that begins with people, place and lived experience.

Drag to explore

Heights Unseen

A Different
Way Of Seeing.

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.

Explore The Story →
Heights Unseen

Documentary

Heights Unseen

The Process

How A Story
Finds Its Way.

Behind every finished frame is a journey of questions, listening, experimentation and making.

Listen

Understand the people before defining the story.

Find

Discover the idea hidden inside the experience.

Shape

Find the visual language that belongs to the story.

Make

Take the idea into the world and create it.

Move

Put the work in front of people and let it travel.

2014 — 2024

Ten Years Of
Re-Tuning Cinema
In Africa.

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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Learn
More.

Explore the people, projects, collaborations and ideas that have shaped RECA's story.

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With Us.

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