God is Rain

Synopsis

Around 500,000 people rely on Lake Turkana for fishing and for water for their crops and cattle. But the lake is drying up and communities are fighting to survive. “They kill each other because of grass and water,” says one man.

Director Biography

Rehad Desai is a former political exile from South Africa, who returned to his home country in 1990. Desai entered the television and film industry as a producer and director in 1996. In 1997, he completed his master’s degree in social history at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; he then completed a postgraduate degree in television and film production through AVEA in 2000.