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Kleankut Academy

We hand youthe tools.

Camera, edit, story and comms — taught by crews who do it every day, in rooms across Africa and on this site for free.

A trainer showing a group of young people how to set up a camera

Lessons

Free, on the site.

Short lessons from working crews. The first ones are in production — tell us which you want first, and we’ll let you know when it’s out.

Track

Level

  • Hands turning the aperture ring on a cinema lens at golden hourIn production

    Camera·Foundation

    Exposure without the guesswork

    Read a scene, set it once, and stop chasing the meter. The three controls and what each one actually costs you.

  • A sound recordist clipping a lapel mic onto a teacherIn production

    Camera·Foundation

    Interview audio that survives the edit

    Where the mic goes, what the room is doing to you, and the one level you should never let it hit.

  • An editor smiling at a long timelineIn production

    Edit·Intermediate

    Finding the first cut

    An assembly is not an edit. How to get from four hours of rushes to the shape of the thing in one sitting.

  • Two storytellers arranging index cards on a wallIn production

    Story·Intermediate

    Structure before style

    Why the edit that feels wrong is almost never a transition problem. Diagnosing story order on a timeline.

  • A community leader laughing with the crew after a first takeIn production

    Comms·Foundation

    Being interviewed without freezing

    For spokespeople. What to do with your hands, how to answer the question you were actually asked, and how to end a sentence.

  • A mobile journalist editing on her phone in a matatuIn production

    Camera·Advanced

    A full package, shot on a phone

    Mobile journalism end to end: gather, cut and file a broadcast-usable story without opening a laptop.

For teams

Lessons get you moving. A workshop gets your whole team there.

Media training, mobile journalism, broadcast presentation, social, media relations, AI for comms teams. Run for your people, on your kit, against your actual work — not a generic syllabus.

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