KENYA
Kenya’s filmmakers stopped waiting.
Everything around the work was missing: financing that arrived on time, one counterpart an international partner could actually deal with, a structure to hold quality across a shoot. So the industry built it. Together, with its own money.
The table is set. We would like you to sit down.
[TITLE]
A feature shot across the Rift Valley.
Produced by [Company] · Directed by [Name] · 2024
[TITLE]
A six-part series produced in Nairobi.
Produced by [Company] · Directed by [Name] · 2023
[TITLE]
A documentary made over three years.
Produced by [Company] · Directed by [Name] · 2025
[TITLE]
A campaign film for an international brand.
Produced by [Company] · Directed by [Name] · 2024
[TITLE]
A short that travelled the festival circuit.
Produced by [Company] · Directed by [Name] · 2023
What it took to make a film here
Kenya has never lacked directors, producers, cinematographers or crews. It lacked everything else.
Most films here are financed by the people making them. Budgets arrive after a success, not before one. There is no rebate scheme to plan against, no completion financing, and permits are negotiated from scratch on every project. Equipment and post capacity sit in companies that had no reason to coordinate.
The work got made anyway. That is worth stopping on: the productions above were made under those conditions, and they hold their own internationally.
So we organised
Missing Linkk is an alliance of Kenya’s producers, crews, post houses and technology teams. Not an agency, not an investor, not a government programme. The people who make the films built the structure that funds them, and they funded it themselves.
For an international partner that has one immediate consequence: the people you negotiate with have produced films. Decisions are made on the merits of a project, not by a committee reading an application.
It has a second, and it is the reason for the name. Artists here are credited, consulted and treated as authors of their work rather than as capacity to be booked. Some of the most sought-after colourists and visual effects artists in the international market work on our productions for that reason alone.
Funding is available now, by request
Productions that pass our quality review receive up to 50% of their Kenyan spend.
The funding is secured against the alliance’s own capital. That means it is available from the first shooting day rather than months after delivery, and you are not financing the gap with a bridge loan while you wait. Accounting runs through Missing Linkk, which is how we can guarantee the money reaches the companies and crews doing the work.
We are building towards a fund of 1 billion KSh, opening to all applicants in 2028. Until then we work with a small number of international partners on selected projects, and we are reviewing requests now.
A co-production shooting in Kenya
Funding against your Kenyan spend, with crews, permits and post handled by one counterpart.
A campaign or branded production
The same structure applied to commercial work, with access to creators and influencers across East Africa.
Post-production only
If your film is nearly financed and short on the final piece, we can fund and manage post in Kenya even when the film was shot elsewhere.
What the fund is backing first
Three productions are in the first round. They are how we test every part of the system before it opens: the quality review, the financing, the accounting and the reporting international partners will rely on.
Through His Eyes
The life and work of casting director Leonard Juma, told as a book, a documentary film and a permanent archive. Developed with USIU-Africa.
In development
[Title of the series]
[Two sentences on the story.] Produced by [Producer].
In development
[Working title]
A co-production with a Nigerian producer, developed under the same terms.
In preparation
Every project in the first round is produced by a company in the alliance, financed from the pool, and accounted for under the same terms an international partner would get. Nothing here is a pilot in the sense of a rehearsal. These are films.
The table is set
Everything a production used to assemble on its own is now in one place.
Access
Permits, locations, local partners, and the right producer for your project. We handle clearances directly with the Kenya Film Commission and the county authorities, often enough to know how long each step actually takes.
Craft
Crews and equipment used to international productions, with colour and visual effects finished by artists working at the top of that market.
Reach
Established relationships with creators and influencers across East Africa, for campaigns that need to land with an audience rather than just exist.
Control
We build our own production software, and its real job is to keep you in control from six thousand kilometres away. Budgets on current market rates, verified casting, cleared locations, live financial visibility during the shoot, and reports in the formats European and American financiers expect. It also translates working methods in both directions. We build this kind of automation for companies outside film as well.
Come and work with us
A feature, a series, a campaign, or a production that is almost financed and short on the last piece. Tell us what you are planning and we will tell you what is possible here.
Missing Linkk is an alliance of Kenyan filmmakers, technologists and creative companies. Ubuntu meets capitalism: I am because we are, and what works gets rewarded.
Founding partners
The companies that put in their own money and their own time before there was anything to show. Missing Linkk exists because they did.