Maronko Venuste
Filmmaker, actor, singer Maronko Venuste is born september 1992 in Burundi, East Africa.
His short film Bad life won at a film festival in Burundi the prize for best film and the prize for best sound.
Bad Life is also in competition for the Guido Huysmans Prize and the Young African Filmmakers Prize in Leuven Belgium.
Maronko Venuste is shooting a new film at the moment called The Time, when everything goes to plan, his new film will be finished within a month.
BAD LIFE is a story about a young man, born and raised in a slum. Boda works as a fence for a drugs dealer, at a certain moment the dealer turns against Boda and executes him, coz Boda does not want to reveal his secrets.
After being in coma for several days, he wakes up and find himself in the hospital, as far as his father is concerned, this as a miracle.