Traditional 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
Tell us your story. We will tell it.
Films, documentaries, talk shows, corporate interviews and AI generated content, made in Rwanda for clients around the world. A new lens, a local crew, international standards.
Traditional films
Documentaries
TV talk shows
Corporate interviews
AI generated content
Kids education
15+Years on set
3Channels
5Countries delivered
8Heads 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 would be hiring. No stock. No stand-ins.
Selected work
Films that left the country.
Pick a category and the shelf rearranges itself. A good deal of our client work sits under NDA.
Showing all 9 productions
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 and heritageFeature length
Traditional filmRoll C
Igicaniro
Narrative feature. Full scale production design, cast direction and a cinema grade finish.
DocumentaryRoll 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 Interviews
Founder films, internal comms, event coverage and annual report storytelling. Polished enough for the boardroom and the feed.
TV talk showRoll E
Auto Talk Show
Multi camera studio format, built for a weekly turnaround and a repeatable look.
Watch Auto Talk Show on Instagram
AI generatedReel 01
Ai Flix, I
Generative concepting and previz feeding straight into a live action crew and a proper finish.
AI generatedReel 02
Ai Flix, II
A second pass at the same question. How far can the machine carry a scene before a human has to step in.
AI generatedReel 03
Ai Flix, III
Our longest AI assisted piece so far, built shot by shot with the same grade as our live action work.
Client workUnder NDA
And a shelf we cannot 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.
Where it all lives
Three channels. One production house.
Our original productions and co productions are published across three channels. Subscribe to the one that matches what you are after.
Original productions
StoryLane2Day
@storylane2day
The main channel. Everything we develop, shoot and finish ourselves, plus the co productions we take on with partners.
- Traditional films
- Documentaries
- TV talk shows
- Corporate interviews
AI assisted
Ai Flix
@aiflix001
Where the crew meets the machine. Generative concepting and previz feeding into a live action crew and a proper grade.
- AI assisted films
- AI assisted shows
- Hybrid live action
- Concept and previz
Kids education
CoCo Biz 4 Kids
@CoCoBiz4kids
Learning content made for young viewers, with the same crew and the same finish as everything else we put out.
- Kids education videos
- Animated explainers
- Learning series
- Family safe content
The Academy
Want to learn film making?
We post tutorials showing exactly how we produce our films. The gear, the lighting, the permits, the edit. Subscribe to our page and join the Academy.
Free tutorials, posted every week
Clients
Who we make it for.
Brands, clinics, dealerships, salons and NGOs, in Rwanda and abroad.
BM
BMC
Brand
BT
Biotech Medicals
Healthcare
FC
Fido Car Rental and Real Estate Agency
Rental and property
BB
Beza Beauty Shop
Retail and beauty
DC
Dream Cars Limited
Automotive
SC
Spinkels Canada
International
EC
Enriched Care NGO
Non profit
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Yours could be next
What we do
One crew, the whole pipeline
Traditional films
Shorts and features with a director attached from first treatment to final grade. Cast, crew and a cinema finish.
Documentaries
Field ready crews for programme evidence, donor films and human stories. Consent first, dignity first, briefed on your safeguarding policy before we roll.
TV talk shows
Multi camera studio formats built for a weekly turnaround, with a repeatable look your audience learns to recognise.
Corporate interviews
Founder films, internal comms, event coverage and annual report storytelling, cut for the boardroom and for the feed.
AI generated content
Generative concepting, previz and synthetic sequences, finished by the same crew and the same grade as our live action work.
Line production and fixing
Flying your own director in? We become your local production office. Permits, locations, casting, transport, customs and a crew who speak the room.
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 have spent fifteen years learning exactly how to move through it.
Get a quote in 48 hours01
Your budget goes further without going cheaper
The same cinema bodies, lighting package and colour pipeline you would 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 have never met.
The collective
Top-tier local talent, sourced for your international project.
Two 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 and documentary
Mc Fab Empire
Brand and commercial
The people who will be on your set
Eight heads of department. You will meet the ones your project needs on the first call, not a sales team.
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 have 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 to 3 shoot days, 4 person core crew
- Cinema camera, lighting and sound package
- 1 hero film plus 8 vertical cutdowns
- Grade, mix, captions and thumbnails
- Two rounds of revisions
Most commissioned
Film and documentary
For features, broadcast docs, impact films and series with a story to develop.
$18,000from / production
- Treatment, research and scripting
- Director, DoP and full department heads
- Multi location schedule, permits and fixing
- Full post: edit, grade, motion, sound design
- Festival, broadcast and 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 and fixing service
- Brand locked look, LUTs and template library
- Managed archive and 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 is 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, such as technocranes, specialty glass or 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 show you the comparison line by line in the quote.
StoryLane2Day carries our original productions and co productions: films, documentaries, talk shows and corporate interviews. Ai Flix carries the AI assisted films and shows. CoCo Biz 4 Kids carries education content made for young viewers. Same crew behind all three.
A quote within 48 hours of a clear brief. For content sprints, crew on the ground inside a week. Film and documentary 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.
Yes. The Academy is our tutorial page, where we break down how we produce our own films: the gear, the lighting setups, the permits and the edit. The tutorials are free. Follow the page and ask us about hands on training if you want more.
Start here
Tell us your story.
We will tell it.
Send the brief, even a rough one. You get a producer's reply within one working day, and a costed treatment within 48 hours of the first call.
dir-benjah@creativecollab.rw Creative
fabsale@creativecollab.rw Sales
+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 and Johannesburg
Tell us your story, we will tell it.