Small Hollywood in Kenya

Eastleighwood, commonly Known as “Small Hollywood in Kenya” has 4 Main
Production Pillars ( 1. Film & Vid-Digital adverts, 2. Creative Art &
Digital Content Productions,3. Somali Traditional Music Productions and 4.
Somali Fashion & Modeling-Cultural Shows), which takes a
Community-Participatory, approach in all its design. As a Non-for-Profit
Organization, Eastleighwood has been implementing strategies to curb
terrorist/violent extremist activities and promotion of both health and
economic resilience. Eastleighwood uses both Mainstream media and Social
media tools for advocacy and education of communities and over the past 8
years, we have produced creative contents including Movies, Short Video
films, Visual arts, Newsletters, TV series, Tv talk shows, short
documentaries, Short plays, Somali traditional Music and youth peace forum
series. In Our Production Program, we use our production content as a
medium that enables us to explore our rich cultural heritage for
education, entertainment and reflection covering the Somali dominated
spots in the Country.
Through its determination to reduce cases of youth violence, tribal
profiling, Violence against women and girls (GBV), in Eastleigh and other
Somalia dominated areas, Eastleighwood attracted local and international
media including K24, KTN Home, GBS T.V channel, DW Aljazeera, Voice of
Africa (VOA), BBC and print media including Daily Nation, Taifa Leo and
The Nairobians through designing and implementing youth-focused programs
e.g. Fashion & Modeling, Film and video production, which, according to
Somalia Culture is a bit strange but enhanced massive community support(Cultural days and
community exhibitions), development, production, trainings and
dissemination of media Contents on art & Culture, Fashion & Modeling,
Youth Education and empowerment for social change, not only in Nairobi and
Garissa Counties but also to the rest of Kenya.