Peter Pages Bwire

Peter Pages Bwire is a film executive, entrepreneur, filmmaker, singer, writer and scholar based in Kenya.

His parents migrated from the fishing town of Port Victoria and he grew up in Kitale. As a child he drew great inspiration from reading Ugandan, Japanese, British, Greek and West African folktales, mythology and storybooks. Later on, his award-winning work in film production design on Angles of My Face (2015), Outset (2015) and Have Not (2015) was part of his early steps into filmmaking.

Peter has received a masters’ degree in the International Film Business from the University of Exeter and the London Film School, a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts and Film Technology from Kenyatta University, Nairobi and a certificate in Community Engagement and Civic leadership from Wagner College, New York, awarded by both Wagner and the US department of State through the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. He has previously worked as the coordinator of the youth development program at the Pan Africa Christian University, and as a publicist for Kenyan entertainers Makena, Laura Karwirwa, Kabi WaJesus, Kymo Thitima, and Eunice Njeri, among others. He organized the Festival of Dots in 2016 after years of planning local music concerts and theatre events in Kitale and Nairobi. Peter is currently a business development partner of the Hip Hop Film Festival, the flagship project of New York’s Harlem Film House which he has helped organize in Nairobi and Abidjan. He is also the founder of Dots Village Entertainment where he is working with other filmmakers to produce and distribute films and TV shows around Eastern African stories and heritage. He has spoken at conferences about the place of art in development, most recently presenting at the Chevening Conference 2019 in Manchester on the role of art in the development of sustainable global cities. He is a passionate researcher of Eastern African cinemas and African heritage and is happy to speak and collaborate on these subjects. He is also available to collaborate from the development stage as a producer of marketing and distribution on film projects.

Peter has written for the Nomad Magazine, Nairobi, worked as a radio presenter at Imani Radio, as brand and marketing executive for Seven Seas Technologies Group, as co-manager of the Covenant Creative Hub which trains teachers and young leaders in western Kenya, and as media director for Love Binti International, a Taiwanese non-profit with operations in Kenya and Uganda. He has volunteered for Oxfam, Handicap International, Africa Writes, and UK Jewish Film among others, bringing his experience in art to use in diverse contexts. His other endeavours include singing with Hillsong London and writing about cinema and Africa.