Krysteen Savane
- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Krysteen Savane is a Kenyan Creative Film Producer, Production Manager & Actress. She has worked on both stage and screen for several years and has starred in various Shows on local TV stations. Krysteen starred in multiple films including Soul Boy, Ndoto za Elibidi, Ni Sisi & on the Netflix series,Sense8.
She produced the award winning film Ni Sisi (Its Us), for S.A.F.E Kenya, worked as an associate producer for Watatu Film and co-directed the short film Malika. She worked as a Production manager on Watu Wote (All of Us), a short film that won Best Short Film at the Student Oscar Awards 2017, and was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Live Action short film, in 2018.
Between 2004 and 2016 Krysteen worked as a producer, production manager and actress for the Kenyan S.A.F.E Kenya, that is using street theatre to educate and inspire social change.
In 2006 Krysteen helped set up the Anno's Africa children's arts program with Bee Gilbert in Nairobi where she co-organized the 6 weeks Artistic Anno's Africa Pilot Program,offering creative classes in dance, ballet, drama, music, acrobatics, creative writing and visual arts for children and young people in a school in Majengo, Nairobi. This pilot developed into yearly intensive workshop sessions and then in 2008 the Berlin based charity One Fine Day e.V. joined forces with Anno's Africa and started a continuation program to the workshops and now run weekly creative classes in Kibera and Mathare throughout the year. Since the inception, Krysteen runs both the Anno's Africa and One Fine Day Creative Arts programs.
In 2017 Krysteen founded the Kenyan CBO Anno's One Fine Day as an affiliate to Anno's Africa and One Fine Day as a sustainable measure for the children's creative arts program
She produced the award winning film Ni Sisi (Its Us), for S.A.F.E Kenya, worked as an associate producer for Watatu Film and co-directed the short film Malika. She worked as a Production manager on Watu Wote (All of Us), a short film that won Best Short Film at the Student Oscar Awards 2017, and was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Live Action short film, in 2018.
Between 2004 and 2016 Krysteen worked as a producer, production manager and actress for the Kenyan S.A.F.E Kenya, that is using street theatre to educate and inspire social change.
In 2006 Krysteen helped set up the Anno's Africa children's arts program with Bee Gilbert in Nairobi where she co-organized the 6 weeks Artistic Anno's Africa Pilot Program,offering creative classes in dance, ballet, drama, music, acrobatics, creative writing and visual arts for children and young people in a school in Majengo, Nairobi. This pilot developed into yearly intensive workshop sessions and then in 2008 the Berlin based charity One Fine Day e.V. joined forces with Anno's Africa and started a continuation program to the workshops and now run weekly creative classes in Kibera and Mathare throughout the year. Since the inception, Krysteen runs both the Anno's Africa and One Fine Day Creative Arts programs.
In 2017 Krysteen founded the Kenyan CBO Anno's One Fine Day as an affiliate to Anno's Africa and One Fine Day as a sustainable measure for the children's creative arts program
