The first recording of film in Burundi occurred in 1980, when Burundian Jean-Michel Hussi Nyamusimba produced the first Burundi film, a French coproduction called Ni-Ni.
[1] Burundi film in the 1990s was also pioneered by women, most notably by Sham-Jeanne Hakizimana, who headed television programs at National Radio and Television of Burundi.
She produced the documentary film, Une Burundaise aujourd'hui in 1991.
[3] After the civil war, the Burundi film industry was revived in 2007, when Canadian filmmaker Christopher Redmond and Raymond Kalisa, a videographer from Rwanda, co-founded the Burundi Film Centre[4] as a training ground for aspiring filmmakers.
They recruited 36 young Burundians for a two-month training in film theory and production.