The Slum Film Festival provides an opportunity for people in the kenyan slum to express themselves.

The Kibera Film School gives local creative talents the opportunity to tell stories about their world to a broader audience.

Follow our correspondent Ruth Baru to take a look.

SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) RUTH BARU, CNC CORRESPONDENT
"Kibera, which is the largest slum in Africa located in Nairobi the Kenyan capital, has often been related to high poverty levels, poor living conditions and stories of children going to bed hungry. However Hot Sun Foundation also known as Kibera Film School has proven to be a hope for the youth in this slum. It has shown that when nurtured these children can reach up to international levels CNC takes you through this foundation."

Hidden in the heart of Kibera, Kibera film school has proved to be sufficient in nurturing talent.

Despite the small area and compact classrooms, as one tours the school, files, editing equipment and old photos are visible showing what the school has already achieved in the past.

Pamela Collet is a trustee of the foundation. He told CNC that Kibera Film School's vision is social transformation through art and media. The school seeks to identify and develop youth talent to tell their stories on film.

SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): PAMELA COLLET, TRUSTEE OF KIBERA FILM SCHOOL
"We mainly work with youth 18-25, we have also done some work with children in photography and introduction to video and yes! Its all about the lack of opportunity.This is the slums where the majority of the people live in Nairobi and in fact in Sub-Saharan Africa, its sub-standard housing but it has nothing to do with the quality of the people.So its an opportunity not only for the people here but for all of Kenya and East Africa because these are the majority, the youth that lives in the slum. This is the future!"

While attending the school the youth are taught to be writers, actors, directors, location scouts, designers, camera people, sound technicians, editors, and promoters.

Pamela says they provide these services through well wishers and donors but the cost financially still remains a challenge.

SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): PAMELA COLLET, TRUSTEE OF KIBERA FILM SCHOOL
"Challenges are always there in terms of the financial support. Film making is expensive. The cost per person for our foundation film making course which is five months, comprehensive and full time training from script writing to post production 150,000 shillings per person."

Although the actual cost is approximately 1,800 US dollars per person, the students at Kibera Film School are required to pay only 670 dollars in small installments throughout the five months period.

However, even so, many of the students still can not afford the cost.

22 year old Gerishon Onyango is one of the success stories at Kibera film School.

Although he had difficulty paying for the courses, he still managed to graduate.

SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) GERISHON ONYANGO, KIBERA FILM SCHOOL GRADUATE
"I applied and fortunately I was one of the people who were chosen to be in the film school class. And according to the school fees, yes there was some amount we were paying and the school gave us priority to learn first then we can pay the other amount later. So I finished my class and fortunately things have been going well with me."

Gerishon told CNC that he loves working on medical documentaries which many of his peers find scary.

SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) GERISHON ONYANGO, KIBERA FILM SCHOOL GRADUATE
"The latest documentary which I took part in was physiotherapy in action. It was shot in Nyahururu and I was the second camera man in that position."

Earlier this year in April, Gerishon was involved in a short film. He was excited to be part of the crew and he told CNC besides the new skills he learnt from the filming, he loved the travelling part of it.

SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) GERISHON ONYANGO, KIBERA FILM SCHOOL GRADUATE
"We travelled from Nairobi to Kisumu then from Kisumu we went to Bungoma after Bungoma we went to Uganda. Then came back and after that I travelled to Meru."

The students in the school also get opportunities to work with worldwide movie directors and writers.

From the beginning of August, the Students have been privileged of being taught more of film making by Dwayne Johnson Cochran, a US director,writer, producer and educator journalist.

Johnson has sold a script to Steven Spielberg titled 'my tribe is lost' that is in development at Dreamworks.

SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) DWAYNE JOHNSON COCHRAN, HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR
"I have come here to teach screen writing, to people at this foundation. Who are really motivated to tell good stories and some of these stories are about their lives here and some are not. Some of them are about stories they can only fathom. Dream of just like any writer would do, come up with a story based on what you would dream of."

Kibera Film School has also produced movies that have won awards all over the world such as the famous Kibera Kid. It is a redemption story of a boy who lives in the slum.

The school is the only comprehensive hands-on film training and production center in the East African slum. Youth trainees at the school develop their talents, tell their stories, become role models and thereby transform their communities.

Kibera Film School was founded in August 2009, with the first group of 10 graduating in March 2010.