I Want to Be a Pilot

I Want to Be a Pilot is a 2006 award-winning Kenyan - Mexican short film docufiction written and directed by Diego Quemada-Diez. The movie has earned more than 50 international prizes, including the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival and has participated in over 200 film festivals such as Sundance, Locarno, Telluride, Edinburgh, Amiens, Los Angeles, São Paulo, Manhattan, Silverdocs, Bermuda, San Francisco.

Plot The short film story tells about dreams of Omondi, a young orphan boy living in the slums of Kenya’s capital. A powerful and poetic filmic protest from a member of the crew that made The Constant Gardener. This award-winning Kenyan-Mexican short film documentary shows a poverty-stricken boy in one of the poorest parts of Kenya who looks up towards the heavens and dreams of being an airline pilot, of being able to fly. The youngster is seen sifting through the metropolitan slums' trash while a child's voice-over reads, "Sunday was my last meal." It is Wednesday today. Only the narrator, who was not an orphan himself, was chosen from among the local performers employed by director Quemada-Diez. The filmmaker describes how he was astounded when the boy—or any other youngster in that circumstance—thanked him for just listening.

Cast Joseph Kyalo Kioko as Pastor Kepha Onduru as Classroom Teacher Collins Otieno as Omondi Gaudencia Ayuma Schichenga as the Nurse

Awards and nominations +YearAwarding OrganisationCategoryNomineeResultRef2007Amiens International Film FestivalBest Short FilmI Want to be a Pilot2007Bermuda International Film Festival Best Short FilmI Want to be a Pilot2007Carrousel International du FilmShort FilmI Want to be a Pilot2006Heartland International Film FestivalDramatic ShortI Want to be a Pilot2006Heartland International Film FestivalBest Short FilmI Want to be a Pilot2007Cleveland International Film FestivalBest Documentary Short FilmI Want to be a Pilot2007Larrissa Mediterranean Festival of New FilmmakersMediterranean CompetitionI Want to be a Pilot2007Manhattan Short Film FestivalBest FilmI Want to be a Pilot2006São Paulo International Film FestivalBest Foreign Short FilmI Want to be a Pilot2008Ashland Independent Film FestivalBest ShortI Want to be a Pilot2007Sarasota Film FestivalKids' Jury AwardI Want to be a Pilot2007Silverdocs Documentary FestivalsHonorable Mention - Short FilmI Want to be a Pilot2006Los Angeles Film FestivalBest Short FilmI Want to be a Pilot2007Alu Cine Latin Film + Media Art FestivalBest FilmI Want to be a Pilot

I Want to Be a Pilot

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