Peter Pages Bwire is a film executive, entrepreneur, filmmaker, singer, writer and scholar based in Kenya. His parents migrated from the fishing town of Port Victoria and he grew up in Kitale. As a child he drew great inspiration from reading Ugandan, Japanese, British, Greek and West African folktales, mythology and storybooks. He was also a passionate sportsperson and proactive student who helped set up many clubs and societies in primary and secondary school in Kitale. Later on, his award-winning work in film production design on Angles of My Face (2015), Outset (2015) and Have Not (2015) was part of his early steps into filmmaking before he set out to establish Dots Village. Through the prestigious Chevening Scholarship, Peter has received a masters’ degree in the International Film Business from the University of Exeter and the London Film School. He also got a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts and Film Technology from Kenyatta University, Nairobi and a certificate in Community Engagement and Civic leadership from Wagner College, New York, awarded by both Wagner College and the US department of State through the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. He has previously worked as the coordinator of the youth development program at the Pan Africa Christian University, and as a publicist for Kenyan entertainers Makena, Laura Karwirwa, Kabi WaJesus, Kymo Thitima, and Eunice Njeri, among others. He organized the Festival of Dots in 2016 after years of planning local music concerts and theatre events in Kitale and Nairobi. Peter was a business development partner of the Hip Hop Film Festival, the flagship project of New York’s Harlem Film House which he helped organize in Nairobi and Abidjan, and is currently the founder and CEO of Dots Village Ltd. and The ChorusBox, a space-based enterprise focusing on creating excellence in film, leadership, spacemaking and social entrepreneurship. He has spoken at conferences about the place of art and culture in development, most recently presenting at the Chevening Conference 2019 in Manchester on the role of art in the development of sustainable global cities. He is a passionate researcher of Eastern African cinemas and African heritage and is happy to speak and collaborate on these subjects. He is also available to collaborate from the development stage as a producer of marketing and distribution, or as executive producer on film projects. Peter has written for the Nomad Magazine, Nairobi, worked as a radio presenter at Imani Radio, as brand and marketing executive for Seven Seas Technologies Group, as co-manager of the Covenant Creative Hub which trains teachers and young leaders in western Kenya, and as media director for Love Binti International, a Taiwanese non-profit with operations in Kenya and Uganda. He has volunteered for Oxfam, Handicap International, Africa Writes, and UK Jewish Film among others, bringing his experience in art to use in diverse contexts. His other endeavours include singing with Hillsong London and writing about cinema and Africa. His personal website is www.peterpagesbwire.com