Annual 2022 Chairman Report
Hello Amazing Animation Community,
It’s with great appreciation that I address you with about 250 days to the end of this year’s calendar. I take this opportunity to wish you well for the remainder of the year. As we all forge ahead, the A3K office took time to reflect on the year 2022 and decided to not only share but celebrate our community’s wins.
In striving to build a cohesive association and animation community at large, 2022 was a year filled with grace. We were bouncing back from the prolonged effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and businesses started sprouting back to life, not only in our sector but the entire value chain within the creative economy.
Last year, we celebrated several achievements, from exhibiting at the 5th Kalasha International market at our own outstanding Animation Pavillion to some A3K office members undergoing governance training at the Panga Sanaa Building Strong Associations Initiative. Further to our cup of blessings, we held a successful International Animation Day and held A3K’s second animation competition dubbed Imarisha Ubunifu several years after Busted, the first Animation Competition in 2019.
These wins paved way for our association to serve us better by nurturing and strengthening the animation community. Looking back, several midnight oils were burnt to improve and grow the association. All focused on attaining our vision to foster the creation and promotion of locally made animation productions through local co-productions, international collaborations, and master classes to further hone our skills. To do this we will need to work together. You, me, and the community at large. Only together shall we raise the creative economy in our region.
I would like to thank the entire A3K office that I serve with. You have voluntarily been at the forefront of ensuring that the animation community is established as a key stakeholder in the Kenyan film industry. A leader in the Orange Economy. Your sacrifice has been immeasurable and highly applauded by each member of the community. Thank you. Additionally, to all the members who honoured the call to serve the association at various industrial engagements throughout 2022, we greatly appreciate you. Thank you for rising to the call to represent the animation community.
It is my greatest hope that we keep and spread the spirit of the association. Go out, and be our ambassadors. Reach out to other animators who are out there buried deep behind their tools of trade and bring them into the fold. Let’s get to see more practitioners join the association and together we will build the kind of animation industry we want. Without any further ado, here is a trip back in time to celebrate the year that was. The year 2022!
Thank you all and I wish you well.
Best Regards,
Harto Muhato
A3K Chairman.
