Documentary & film
Long-form storytelling with a director attached from first treatment to final grade — features, shorts and series that hold a festival audience.
Tell us your story. We will tell it.
World-class production, rooted in Rwanda. Films, documentaries and campaign content for international NGOs, brands and institutions — a new lens, a local crew, international standards.
15+Years on set
3Studios, one crew
5Countries delivered
9Heads of department
Commissioned, funded and trusted by
Our showreel
Two minutes is all we need.
Our approach
Explore the work
Every frame was shot, lit, directed, graded and finished by the crew you'd be hiring. No stock. No stand-ins.
What we do
One crew, the whole pipeline
NGO & impact films
Field-ready crews for programme evidence, donor films and human stories — consent-first, dignity-first, briefed on your safeguarding policy before we roll.
Brand & commercial
TVCs, founder films, product and launch content built around a single idea — and a media plan, so the edit is cut for where it will actually run.
Digital campaigns
One shoot, forty cutdowns. Vertical, square and 16:9 masters with captions, thumbnails and a delivery calendar your social team can just run.
Motion & animation
Title sequences, infographics, data storytelling and 2D character animation — for the parts of the story a camera can't reach.
Line production & fixing
Flying your own director in? We become your local production office — permits, locations, casting, transport, customs and a crew who speak the room.
Selected work
Films that left the country.
A short list of what we can name. A good deal of our work sits under NDA.
Short filmRoll A
Wicked Boss
A workplace short with teeth. Developed, shot and finished in Kigali with a fully Rwandan cast and crew.
Funded by Rwanda Development BoardRwanda Film Office
Feature documentaryRoll B
The Hidden Treasure of Weaving
A feature-length portrait of Rwandan art and craft — the hands, the patterns and the economy behind the baskets the world buys.
Craft & heritageFeature length
Feature filmRoll C
Igicaniro
Narrative feature. Full-scale production design, cast direction and a cinema-grade finish.
NGO & impact filmRoll D
Programme storytelling
Community-led filming for an international organisation — consent-first, translated on the ground, cut for donors and for the people in it.
Corporate16:9
Corporate Videos
Founder films, internal comms, event coverage and annual-report storytelling — polished enough for the boardroom and the feed.
Motion graphics2D / 3D
Titles, data & animation
Title sequences, animated infographics and explainer work for the parts of a story a camera can't reach.
Studio seriesRoll E
Auto Talk Show
Multi-camera studio format, built for a weekly turnaround and a repeatable look.
Watch Auto Talk Show on InstagramClient workUnder NDA
And a shelf we can't show you.
Brand campaigns, donor films and institutional content for clients in South Africa, the USA, Canada and the UK. Names on request, under mutual NDA.
Ai Flix
Where the crew meets the machine.
Our AI-assisted strand — generative concepting and previz feeding straight into a live-action crew and a proper finish.
Ai Flix — IPlay
Ai Flix — IIPlay
Ai Flix — IIIPlay
Why produce here
A new lens.
A local crew.
International standards.
Rwanda is one of the safest, most navigable places on the continent to shoot — and we've spent fifteen years learning exactly how to move through it.
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Your budget goes further — without going cheaper
The same cinema bodies, lighting package and colour pipeline you'd book in London or Toronto — at a fraction of the day rate. What you save goes back into shoot days, not flights.
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The crew already lives here
No scouting from a hotel lobby. We know which permits take three days and which take three weeks, where the light lands at 5:40pm on the terraces, and which district office to call when the road is closed.
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Your production leaves something behind
Every shoot hires and trains locally — grips, runners, translators, drivers, caterers. Your film reaches an international audience and your budget lands in the community that helped you make it.
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Delivered to your standard, on your calendar
4K and 6K masters, LUT-matched multi-cam, broadcast-safe audio, subtitles in Kinyarwanda, English and French, and versioned deliverables that pass QC the first time.
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One point of contact, start to master
A named producer owns your project end to end. You get one contact, one schedule, one budget line — not a chain of subcontractors you've never met.
The collective
Top-tier local talent, sourced for your international project.
Three Rwandan production houses who kept ending up on the same sets. Rather than compete for the same brief, we pooled the crew, the kit, the cast book and fifteen years of footage.
Xplore Rwanda
Film & documentary
Mc Fab Empire
Brand & commercial
Izere Arts & Media Hub
Talent pool & cast
The people who'll be on your set
Nine heads of department. You'll meet the ones your project needs on the first call — not a sales team.
Kagorora Benjamin
Creative Director
Gahizi Fabien
Sales & Marketing Director
Ezra Kwizera
Production Engineer
HR
Habimana Rachid
Cinematographer
TB
Tuyishimire Belyse
Make-up artist
DM
Douglas Micho
Motion graphics
KM
Kamikazi Mpyisi
Line production
BS
Bob Steve
Animation
RK
Racheal Karungi
Screenwriting
In their words
What commissioners say afterwards.
We budgeted for a European crew and a week of travel. We got a better film, in ten days, without leaving the programme country — and the rushes were on our server every night.
They handled permits, translation and community consent before we landed. Our director walked onto a set that was already working. That is the whole job.
One shoot gave us a hero film, a broadcast cut and six weeks of social. The grade matched across all of it. We've booked them for the next campaign.
Engagements
Three ways to work with us.
Indicative starting bands in USD, all-in for a Rwanda-based production. Every brief comes back with a line-itemised quote — no day-rate surprises.
Content sprint
For campaigns, launches and social. One tight shoot, many cutdowns.
$3,500from / project
- 2–3 shoot days, 4-person core crew
- Cinema camera, lighting & sound package
- 1 hero film + 8 vertical cutdowns
- Grade, mix, captions & thumbnails
- Two rounds of revisions
Most commissioned
Documentary & film
For features, broadcast docs, impact films and series with a story to develop.
$18,000from / production
- Treatment, research & scripting
- Director, DoP & full department heads
- Multi-location schedule, permits & fixing
- Full post: edit, grade, motion, sound design
- Festival, broadcast & streaming masters
- Subtitles: Kinyarwanda · English · French
Production partner
For broadcasters, agencies and NGOs who shoot here more than once a year.
Customretainer
- Crew and kit on call, priority scheduling
- Local production office & fixing service
- Brand-locked look, LUTs & template library
- Managed archive & rights administration
- Quarterly planning with your comms team
Prices exclude international travel and talent buy-outs. Grant-funded and non-profit briefs are quoted at our impact rate.
Questions
Before you brief us.
Still unanswered? Write to us — a producer replies, not a chatbot.
Ask a producerYes — that's most of our work. You send the brief and references, we send back a treatment, schedule and budget. Rushes go to your review link nightly, and we can run live remote-viewing sessions from set so your team can direct from anywhere.
Handled in-house. We hold the working relationships with the Rwanda Film Office, district authorities, national parks and private locations, and we brief communities before a camera comes out of the case. Consent forms and safeguarding paperwork are part of the delivery pack.
We own our core camera, lighting, grip and sound packages, plus drones and a studio for interviews and multi-cam formats. Anything specialist — technocranes, specialty glass, large lighting — we rent locally, and it appears on your budget at cost.
Typically the same production scoped in Western Europe or North America lands two to four times higher, mostly on crew day rates, travel and per diems. You keep the specification and lose the overhead. We'll show you the comparison line by line in the quote.
A quote within 48 hours of a clear brief. For content sprints, crew on the ground inside a week. Documentary and feature work runs to a development schedule we agree together — usually four to eight weeks from green light to first shoot day, faster if permits allow.
You do. Standard contracts assign full rights in the commissioned material to you on final payment, including the rushes if you want them archived on your side. Co-production and shared-rights structures are available for grant-funded and festival projects.
Routinely. A large share of our client work is confidential. Send your NDA, child protection and data policies with the brief and we'll sign, brief the crew and build the requirements into the call sheet.
English, French, Kinyarwanda and Swahili on set, with translators and fixers for regional dialects. Deliverables ship with burnt-in or sidecar subtitles in the languages you name.
Start here
Tell us your story.
We'll tell it.
Send the brief — even a rough one. You'll get a producer's reply within one working day, and a costed treatment within 48 hours of the first call.
hello@thecreativecollab.rw
+250 783 255 174 Kigali
+1 (512) 787-8108 USA
+1 (236) 412-1060 Canada
Kigali, Rwanda — GMT+2, overlapping London, New York and Johannesburg
Where this happens
A thousand hills.
One production city.
Kigali sits two hours from rainforest, volcanoes, lakes and savannah — and forty minutes from a functioning film office. Land in the morning, be on location by lunch.
Kigali, Rwanda · GMT+2 · overlapping London, New York & Johannesburg
Tell us your story, we will tell it.