Hawa Essuman shares her working life between film and television, directing, writing and producing. Soul Boy is her first feature and is a co-operation with the German director Tom Tykwer, who runs a social project training young film professionals in Kenya. In 2008, Essuman directed the television drama Makutano Junction. She is currently working on two feature films, The Lift and the Question of Being Selfish. —Women of the Sun