Meet The Team

Our Story

Nairoreel Productions is a video production company founded in Nairobi, Kenya in 2024. Brandon and Bill both finished high school in 2023 and hit a gap before university. Rather than waiting it out, they started teaching themselves: Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Blender. They launched a podcast called The Genzennial partly to stay accountable to the learning.

Most of the education came from YouTube. Chris Do, an Emmy Award-winning designer and founder of The Futur channel, was one of the bigger influences. His focus was less on technique and more on how to run a creative business: charge based on value not hours, and know how to hold a client conversation without folding. Other channels went deep on cinematography, lighting, and production breakdowns. Between all of it, they were building real working knowledge.

Over time they went in different directions. Bill got more interested in photography. Brandon kept going deeper into Blender.

By the end of 2024, they had a finished piece to show for it. The KFC spec ad was the first full 3D production, built as a self-set challenge. Blender for the whole 3D pipeline, DaVinci Resolve for editing and sound. Their laptops couldn't handle the heavier renders, so they used Google Colab to run those jobs in the cloud and pulled the outputs back locally. It worked.

Bill shot weddings and local events in the meantime, and joined his father on documentary work for government projects in rural Kenya, including fieldwork around the Nile Basin in northern Kenya. Then he got access to shoot Nairobi Fashion Week. The black and white image of the model you see across this site came from that day.

Maria Yusufali joined as Communications Director after that.

Brandon is now working with EmberGen for fire and smoke simulations. Bill shoots more video alongside the photography. The core tools are Blender, DaVinci Resolve, Photoshop, and Final Cut, with Marvelous Designer in the pipeline for cloth work. Tranzit, a two-part CGI short, is the biggest production so far. There's more coming.