I Want to Be a Pilot

{{Infobox film

| name = I Want to Be a Pilot

| image = I_Want_to_Be_a_Pilot_movie_poster.png

| caption = Movie poster

| director = Diego Quemada-Diez

| producer = Diego Quemada-Diez

| writer = Diego Quemada-Diez

| narrator =

| starring = Joseph Kyalo Kioko, Collins Otieno, Gaudencia Ayuma Shichenga, Kepha Onduru, Joseph Kyalo Kioko

| music =

| cinematography = Diego Quemada-Diez

| editing = Kim Bica

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|2006|02|22|df=y}}

| runtime = 12 minutes

| country = Kenya

| language = English

| budget = €8,000 (estimated){{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816201/business|title=Estimated Budget at the Internet Movie Data Base|website=IMDb |accessdate=2009-10-21}}

}}

I Want to Be a Pilot is a 2006 award-winning Kenyan - Mexican short film docufiction written and directed by Diego Quemada-Diez. The movie has earned more than 50 international prizes, including the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival and has participated in over 200 film festivals such as Sundance, Locarno, Telluride, Edinburgh, Amiens, Los Angeles, São Paulo, Manhattan, Silverdocs, Bermuda, San Francisco.

Plot

The short film story tells about dreams of Omondi, a young orphan boy living in the slums of Kenya’s capital. A powerful and poetic filmic protest from a member of the crew that made The Constant Gardener. This award-winning Kenyan-Mexican short film documentary shows a poverty-stricken boy in one of the poorest parts of Kenya who looks up towards the heavens and dreams of being an airline pilot, of being able to fly.{{Cite web|title=I Want To Be A Pilot|url=https://moviesthatmatter.nl/en/education/film/i-want-to-be-a-pilot/|access-date=2021-11-18|website=Movies that Matter|language=en-EN}}

Cast

Joseph Kyalo Kioko{{cite web|title=Reframe Peterborough international film festival 2010: I want to be a pilot|url=http://reframe.bside.com/2010/films/iwanttobeapilot_reframe2010|publisher=Reframe film festival|accessdate=6 June 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118142134/http://reframe.bside.com/2010/films/iwanttobeapilot_reframe2010|archive-date=18 January 2013|url-status=dead}}
Kepha Onduru
Collins Otieno ... Omondi
Gaudencia Ayuma Schichenga