Born in Kigali on December 6, 1982, Kivu entered the film career working in 2004 as a production assistant for Eric Kabera, a Rwandan producer.

He was then promoted to production manager, where he used to assist news crews coming to Rwanda from the BBC or CNN.

[1] The film was produced in Rwanda in unstable financial situations, but it had a great success and went on to play at international prestigious film festivals including Tribeca, Melbourne, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Dubai, Durban, Göteborg and the Festival do Rio.

In 2014, Kivu started the production of his second feature Things of the Aimless Wanderer, a film about the sensitive topic of relations between “locals” and Westerners.

http://www.tribecafilm.com/festival/features/Kivu_Ruhorahoza_Grey_Matter.html#.UTH4ajBTBp5 Archived 2012-01-04 at the Wayback Machine "Tribeca Film Festival on Kivu Ruhorahoza"