// WORK — FILM & VIDEO
We produce commercials, documentaries, corporate films, live productions, original entertainment and experimental work from Kenya. Our production experience predates Boondocks Lab. It includes work developed through Fiction Entertainment, which began operations in 2013 and became part of the wider Boondocks incubation story.
UNILEVERSTANBICXENO AFRICARIARAUN WOMENKALASHA BEST ANIMATION FILM 2024
EVERY LINE ITEM, IN THE OPEN — CAMERAS FROM KES 5,000/DAY · CREW FROM KES 5,000/DAY · EDITING FROM KES 5,000/CUT
SEE THE RATE CARD
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0:30 · 2024
SHOWREEL · 0:30 · BOONDOCKS LAB
// SERVICES — WHAT WE SHOOT
EVERY KIND OF VIDEO. ONE WHATSAPP MESSAGE.
FILM & VIDEO
Commercials · Corporate films · Documentaries · Music videos · Digital content
COMMERCIAL & BRAND FILMS
TV commercials, product launches and brand stories that feel like short films. Script to screen.
FROM KES 85,000
REQUEST QUOTE →DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION
Real stories, real people. NGO impact films, legacy documentaries, behind-the-scenes series.
FROM KES 120,000
REQUEST QUOTE →MUSIC VIDEOS
Visuals that match the frequency. Concept, estate locations, choreography of light.
FROM KES 65,000
REQUEST QUOTE →MOBILE-FIRST CONTENT
Vertical, fast, shot on phones, cut the same day. Built for TikTok, Reels and WhatsApp Status.
FROM KES 12,000
REQUEST QUOTE →LIVE
Conferences · AGMs · Events · Multicamera · Livestreams
LIVESTREAMING & AGM COVERAGE
Multicam livestreams to YouTube and Google Teams for a virtual global audience — we streamed the Xeno Africa AGM 2025.
FROM KES 95,000 / DAY
REQUEST QUOTE →EVENT VIDEO COVERAGE
Weddings, launches, conferences, festivals. Multicam, live edit, same-week delivery.
FROM KES 45,000 / DAY
REQUEST QUOTE →ANIMATION & AI
2D/3D animation · AI-assisted production · Virtual environments · AI graphics · Post-production
ANIMATION & MOTION
Award-winning 2D/3D animation and title design. Kalasha Best Animation Film, 2024.
FROM KES 150,000
REQUEST QUOTE →AI-ASSISTED POST-PRODUCTION
AI color grade, AI sound design, subtitles in English, Swahili and Sheng. Fast, affordable, sharp.
FROM KES 15,000
REQUEST QUOTE →AI STORYTELLING & VIRTUAL SETS
Green screen + AI environments, AI graphics, AI voices. Cinema without the location budget — full detail on its own page.
FROM KES 2,000
REQUEST QUOTE →FULL AI PAGE →ARCHIVE
VHS · MiniDV · Hi8 · Video8 · Betacam
VIDEO DIGITIZATION
VHS, Hi8, MiniDV, Betacam — tapes rescued to files that outlive the deck that played them. Bulk rates past 50 tapes.
KES 500 PER 60-MIN TAPE
REQUEST QUOTE →FULL DIGITIZATION PAGE →ON THE GROUND
Location scouting · Production fixing · Permits & logistics
LOCATION SCOUTING & PRODUCTION FIXING
Permits, locations, local logistics — anywhere in Kenya, handled by people who know the ground. Or skip the fee entirely: our own 30-acre estate is a standing set.
KES 10,000 / DAY
HOW MUCH?
CAMERAS FROM 5,000/DAY
CREW FROM 5,000/DAY
EDITING FROM 5,000/CUT
build your own quote. no "call for a quote" fog.
// SELECTED WORK — 2013 → TODAY
GROWN, NOT MADE.
The credits first, then the archive — twenty-two real productions. Every card opens the real video on Vimeo in a new tab.
| PROJECT | CLIENT | YEAR | OUR ROLE | DELIVERABLES | WATCH |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinema in Nature | Sounds of Freedom Africa | 2024 | Production | Open-air cinema experience | |
| Death Valley — 2024 Kalasha Best Animation Film | Rebel Studios · dir. Kennedy Kyalo | 2024 | Production | Produced by Fiction Entertainment in collaboration with Rebel Studios | WATCH ↗ |
| Xeno Africa AGM 2025 | Xeno Africa | 2025 | Live production | Multicam livestream — Google Teams + YouTube | |
| Usoni & Usawa — game cinematics | Jiwe Studios | 2025 | Cinematics & cut scenes | In-game cinematics for mobile & PC games | WATCH ↗ |
| Stanbic × ATC Kenya — digitization coverage | Stanbic · ATC Kenya | Field | Field coverage | Documentary coverage across the coastal region | |
| Riara at 50 — Journey Behind the Scenes | Riara | Ongoing | Documentary production | Behind-the-scenes documentary series | |
| Ending Workplace GBV | UN Women | Field | Coverage | Advocacy film coverage |
// PROOF
THE WORK HAS RECEIPTS.
A production company is its credits. Here are ours — collaborations, awards and coverage from the Boondocks Lab archive.
- 2025
XENO AFRICA AGM 2025
Full livestream production for Xeno Africa's 2025 Annual General Meeting — broadcast to a virtual global audience on Google Teams and YouTube. Multicam, live switching, zero dead air.
XENO AFRICA
- 2024
KALASHA AWARD — BEST ANIMATION FILM
Best Animation Film at the 2024 Kalasha International Film & TV Awards. Produced by Fiction Entertainment in collaboration with Rebel Studios; the award was handed to Kennedy Kyalo, the director.
REBEL STUDIOSDIR. KENNEDY KYALO
- 2024
CINEMA IN NATURE
An open-air cinema experience produced in collaboration with Sounds of Freedom Africa — film under the sky, sound by the collective that owns the night.
SOUNDS OF FREEDOM AFRICA
- ONGOING
RIARA AT 50 — JOURNEY BEHIND THE SCENES
Documenting the Riara at 50 journey — a behind-the-scenes initiative following fifty years of an institution becoming itself.
RIARA
- ONGOING
USONI & USAWA — VIDEO GAMES
In-game cinematics and cut scenes for Usoni and Usawa — mobile and PC video games made in collaboration with Jiwe Studios.
JIWE STUDIOS
- FIELD
STANBIC × ATC KENYA — DIGITIZATION COVERAGE
Field coverage of the digitization initiative by Stanbic and ATC Kenya across the coastal region — towers, teams and the communities connecting.
STANBICATC KENYA
- FIELD
UN WOMEN — ENDING WORKPLACE GBV
Coverage of the UN Women initiative empowering young girls and fighting gender-based abuse in the workplace. Stories handled with the care they deserve.
UN WOMEN
+ many more in the Boondocks Lab archive — commercials, promos, memorials and experiments, 2017 → today. See them in the work below.
// CREDIBILITY
SELECTED CLIENTS
- Unilever
- Stanbic
- Xeno Africa
- UN Women
- Riara
- ATC Kenya
- Rebel Studios
- Jiwe Studios
AWARDS
| AWARD | YEAR | PROJECT | ROLE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalasha International Film & TV Awards — Best Animation Film | 2024 | Death Valley (Rebel Studios) | Produced by Fiction Entertainment in collaboration with Rebel Studios; awarded to director Kennedy Kyalo. |
The honest version: the Kalasha 2024 Best Animation Film award was handed to director Kennedy Kyalo — for the film Fiction Entertainment produced with Rebel Studios.
// LOCATIONS & LOGISTICS
WE KNOW THE GROUND. ALL OF IT.
Shooting in Kenya from out of town — or out of the country? Our location scouting and production fixing covers permits, location agreements, local crew coordination, transport and the hundred small negotiations that decide whether a shoot day happens. KES 10,000 per day, per fixer. And when the right location is ours, it's simpler: 30 acres of savanna, structures and sets, 30 km from Nairobi.
SCOUT
Tell us the look. We send options with photos, access notes and permit status.
FIX
Permits, agreements, local logistics, crew coordination — booked and confirmed.
SHOOT
Your production lands on a ready location. Our fixer stays reachable all day.
// HOW IT WORKS
NO BIDDING WARS. NO RACE TO THE BOTTOM.
Every job flows through the Lab. You brief us on WhatsApp, we quote, we assign the vetted crew. You never manage freelancers; we never waste your budget on a bidding board.
BRIEF
Send the job on WhatsApp: what, where, when, budget. Voice notes welcome.
QUOTE
We reply within a day with a treatment and a fixed quote. Want the math first? Our full rate card and cost estimator are public — build your own number before you even message us. TRY THE ESTIMATOR →
CREW
We assign vetted crew from the roster — the right hands for your specific job, not whoever bid lowest.
DELIVER
Shoot, AI-assisted post, same-week delivery on most jobs. You get the masters and the cutdowns.
rates are job-based. the crew who stay flexible on rates are the crew who get booked most — that's true for us and for them.
ARE YOU THE CREW?
Camera operators, editors, animators, fixers: the roster is open. CV, work samples, rate card — one WhatsApp message.
Looking for the old Fiction Entertainment site? We've moved home — same crew, same soil, everything here.
// QUESTIONS
ASKED ON WHATSAPP, ANSWERED HERE.
// PRODUCTION HISTORY
THE FICTION ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY
Fiction Entertainment, which began operations in 2013 and was legally registered in 2014, was one of the companies incubated through the Boondocks ecosystem and provides part of the production history behind today's Boondocks Lab. That history isn't being discarded — it's part of the foundation on which Boondocks Lab is building something larger.
Book Boondocks Lab or watch the full archive
HAVE A FILM IN MIND?
Tell us what you're making. We reply on WhatsApp within a day.
THE FULL ARCHIVE
30 KM FROM NAIROBI. 30 ACRES. · 1.31°S / 37.26°E · 2013 → NOW