Kakic Universe Archives – Kakic Universe News & Updates

Joina City’s 14th Anniversary Celebration Campaign

Kakic Universe — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 12:54:37 +0000

On the 10th of March 2024, Joina City Officially celebrated its 14th Anniversary. To help them celebrate we created this beautiful promotional video:

Celebration Day

We also provided livestreaming and media coverage for their celebration day, you can see the content below:

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Joina City International Women’s Month Campaign

Kakic Universe Business — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:35:40 +0000

March is regarded as International Women’s Month and we worked with Joina City’s Marketing team to produce the a campaign, celebrating the theme, “Inspire Inclusion”.

International Women's Day Video

Quotes

We also had a social media campaign where all the various women at Joina City shared a quote that inspired them. Here are some examples below

Joina City Breakfast Dialogue Meeting Coverage

Kakic Universe Business — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:12:20 +0000

It was a great honour for us to provide media coverage (photography & videography) services for Joina City as they hosted their Marketer’s Breakfast Meeting. It was an opportunity for marketers to meetup and network as well as appreciate Joina City as a whole.

Joina city was also working with Shingai, Madam Boss, Prudence Katomeni and Jessesi Mungoshi on the Colour Purple event. After the Breakfast event, Joina City also went on to give the women a tour of Joina City. You can see the pictures below:

We are grateful to always support Joina City in its marketing efforts! If you would like to have these services for your business or Campaign, visit the link below:

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Miss Earth Zimbabwe 2023 Campaign

Kakic Universe Business — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:47:54 +0000

It was a great honour for us to produce the promotional videos for Tadiwa Courtney Jongwe, as she represented Zimbabwe at the Miss Earth Zimbabwe Pageant in Vietnam in 2023. You can watch the videos below:

We also did some flyers to supprot her:

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Auditions for Sibo the Engineer

Kakic Universe — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 18:39:34 +0000

We are excited to announce auditions for the animated adaptation of Sibo the Civil Engineer, a Zimbabwean children’s book on civil engineering.

The book was written by: Michelle Rutendo Sibongile Maphosa, illustrated by Wadzanayi Kim Bwanya, you can find the book on Amazon.

The book is short and powerful and the aim of the series is to ignite an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in young children.

We will be producing the animated adaptation of the children’s book so here is how it is going to go down!

Rules and Conditions

We are adapating the first book of the series into an animated show, however, there will be more issues in the series. This means that successful auditionees will be required to reprise the roles awarded to them for future projects when required.

Please note, the following conditions apply for this project only, future adaptations of this project may have different requirements:

1) Can be in Harare for the duration of the recordings
2) Available on weekends (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
3) Fluent in English
4) Access to Whatsapp

Renumeration

As stated above, this will be a book series which will also be adaptated to multiple animation projects. Successful audtionees will be required to play the same characters for future projects as well and will also be renumerated for each project.

Renumeration depends on the amount of work to be done on the project, that’s to say roles with more work to do will receive more renumeration.

How to audition:

Download the audion material at the bottom of the page.
Send a video of yourself reciting/perfoming the lines to the following Whatsapp Number: +263 71 432 7211
Successful auditionees will be notified and will be required to come in for recording.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS WEDNESDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2023, AT 12 NOON.

We wish you all the best! Click the button below to download the audition material:

Watch Journey of the Forsaken

Kakic Universe — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 10:09:57 +0000

Journey of the forsaken is finally available to watch online!

Left without a father and subject to the abuse of a jealous uncle, Journey of the Forsaken details the exploits of a young man who descends into Zimbabwe’s underground in search of what it means to be a man but are there enough support systems in society for vulnerable young boys like him?

Journey of the Forsaken is an 8 Episode animation series that focuses on the topic of how vulnerable young men are neglected in Society just beacuse they are male and are expected to fall within the toxic stereotype of being a “strong male”. Regardless of Gender, we are all human, we all have feelings and we all need support when we are vulnerable and going through life’s challenges.

Journey of the Forsaken is supported by the British Council Cultural Economy programme, which supports cultural organisations, festivals, artists, and creatives between the countries of SSA* and the UK to create art, build networks, collaborate and develop markets and share artists’ work with audiences.

About the British Council
The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We build connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and other countries through arts and culture, education and the English language. Last year we reached over 80 million people directly and 791 million people overall including online broadcasts and publications. Founded in 1934, we are a UK charity governed by Royal Charter and a UK public body. We receive a 15 per cent core funding grant from the UK government. www.britishcouncil.org

How to watch Journey of the forsaken

The first 3 Episodes are available to watch for free on our Youtube channel!

The rest will have to be accessed on a pay per view basis on platforms such as gateway stream.

For more information on where to watch it use the link below:

JOF featured on 3KTV (Prime time news)

Kakic Universe — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 20:14:24 +0000

We are honoured to have had Journey of the forsaken featured on 3ktv’s Entertainment news during their Prime Time News section! Watch the clip below!

We are very honoured to have been on the news and we are grateful! If you haven’t watched the show, check it out below!

JOF in the news Again

Kakic Universe — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 08:02:56 +0000

On Saturday, 17 September, we held an event to Celebrate our 5th anniversary as well as premiere our new show, Journey of the forsaken. We are happy to say that the event managed to catch the attention of the press, read the 2 amazing articles below:

JOF Premiere/5TH Anniversary Celebration

Kakic Universe — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:27:42 +0000

They say the true test of a start up is if it can survive its first 5 business years. It is with great joy for us to have celebrated our 5th Anniversary On Saturday 17 September, we also Premiered the First Episode of our new show, JOURNEY OF THE FORSAKEN

Kakic Universe celebrates its Anniversary every year on the 5th of September, and with the production of Journey of the forsaken being finalised within the same time frame, we decided to celebrate both items.

What Happened?

The event was hosted at Sterling Boutique Lodge, in Harare, Zimbabwe. Present were members of the press, Executives and business partners, friends, family and the Kakic Universe Fans.

Free transport was provided for those who needed it, courtesy of Kakic Universe and Sterling Boutique Lodge.

When our guests arrived, they were offered free complimentary drinks and there was time to mix, mingle and network.

You can watch the Short Video highlights to see a glimpse of what happened.

The Event

After our Creative Director, Kudakwashe Maxwell welcomed people to the event, the Operations manager at Sterling Boutique Lodge, Mr. Zhou, gave the guests welcome remarks and declared a few House Keeping Issues.

After that, Kudakwashe Introduced himself to the Audience. The goal of the first half of the Event, was to take the audience on the journey of how Kakic Started and everything it went through, until it’s 5th Anniversary.

While in High school, He began experimenting with various Software, which is how he created his first Official Animation, the Life and Time Of Choice Zvenhamo. He then urged the audience to observe the improvement and growth of the animation work as the years progressed, you can watch the Life and Time of Choice video below:

However, Kuda was Still In School and still had to focus on his studies, but he did continue to develop his animation skills when he had the free time.

As Kuda was approaching his final years, he begun looking towards the future and how best he could pursue a career in animation. Kuda said “God’s plan and timing are always best,” because around this time, his high school then introduced a social media club, which Kuda joined and as a part of it, they set up Social Media Pages and the School’s Website.

Kuda made the unpopular decision of dropping out of his High School’s Boy’s Hockey Senior First Team, and the Stigma surrounding his decision, especially considering the fact that being a member of the first team was regarded as a great honour and achievement. However, while Kuda understood this, he begun to really consider his future seriously and how best he could prepare for it.

Through the social media club, he begun working on his skills and by the time he left high school he was ready to start working.

After Releasing some work, he caught the attention of the media and press for a while, appearing on several TV interviews, radio interviews and press articles, however, Kuda was focused on finding where the money was, and he was more concerned with finding ways to monetise his art.

Kuda on Set before an Interview with the National Broadcaster

Kuda and his interviewer Whitney, before the Interview

Kuda and Lisa After the Interview

Kudakwashe Maxwell Being interviewed by MSU Staff students

Kuda then realised that if he was not careful, he could quickly become a very popular yet very broke person. Thus He shifted his focus from entertainment and started working on developing KAKIC BUSINESS, the media consultancy side of the company that would focus on generating money and inject it into the business, allowing for there to be growth and capacity to do so much more.

He then went on to share the story of the “Gweru Chronicles”, how he ended up lecturing at MSU and how he got endorsement from the minister of education (You can visit these stories later, in the annex at the bottom of the page)

The Renaissance Era

Kakic Business ended up consuming so much time that Kuda didn’t have time to create further art for entertainment, but this had to be changed, and thus a brilliant video was created, one of Kuda’s Favourites even to date, you can watch bouquet below:

The audience was impressed with the improvement in quality and also many were touched by the amazing, powerful and emotional message that the video carried. Kuda then stated that he realised he wanted to create content that had the Capacity to make an impact in society and he wanted to pursue that further.

The Covid 19 Era

As is public knowledge, the year 2020 unfortunately brought with it, the Global Pandemic known as Covid 19. The deadly virus led to a lot of nationwide lockdowns and other drastic measures, as countries were trying to contain and prevent the spread of the virus. Kuda saw an opportunity in Crisis, and went on to Partner with the World Health Organisation and the ministry of health on some educational and entertainment Videos to help fight the virus:

The Covid 19 induced lockdowns also created an opportunity for Kakic to collaborate with Popular Multi Award Winning Zimbabwean Comedian, Learnmore Jonasi (Formerly Long John the Comedian).

Watch the Long John Animated Show Below:

All of this content generated within the Covid 19 Era saw a boost and an increase in clients for Kakic Business. However, Kuda wanted a chance to show what he could really do, which led to the collaboration with Local Poet, Hey Hey Preacher on one of our favourites, Panze:

Food break

After the recap session of the first 5 years, we then went for a food break, where the Marvelous Team at Sterling Boutique served delicous food and beverages.

It was refreshing time of interaction, socialising and networking.

The Premiere of Journey of the forsaken

To finish off the story of Kakic’s First 5 years, Kuda then shared the dark side of the journey, the painful loses, the discouraging moments, the pain, the times he felt like giving up. All of the challenges faced when one tries to pursue a creative career in a 3rd world Country.

He then thanked the amazing support system he has as he would have never managed to lead the company to 5 years without them.

After this, we then premiered the first episode of Journey of the forsaken.

Conclusion

After the premiere of the show, Kuda went on to thank everyone who has been supporting him from the start until now. He spoke about the times he wanted to give up, the challenges he face and how he only made it through because of the amazing support system he had.

Afterwards the event was concluded and people went outside to eat, further networking and have cake.

Appendix Section

263chat Features JOF

Kakic Universe — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 16:14:18 +0000

We are grateful to 263Chat for this amazing article to help promote our Upcoming Series, Journey of the Forsaken.

Read The article: