Dorothy Ghettuba

Born and raised in Kenya,^[6] Ghettuba studied communications and political science at Andrews University in Michigan, United States. After her graduation, she spent several years living in Canada, where she worked for a period with a venture capital fund.^[7] She returned to Kenya shortly after her thirtieth birthday.^[8] Ghettuba claims that her original passion was acting, but when she was not selected for roles, she turned to the production side of filmmaking.^[9]

She quit her job at a venture capital firm in Canada to pursue her passion in filmmaking.^[10] Gettuba-Pala joined a local TV show as a producer before moving on to establish Spielworks Media, a local entertainment production and content creation company for television and digital platforms operating in East and Central Africa.^[11] Ghettuba-Pala is also the co-founder of Keja TV, a social media channel on Facebook and YouTube.^[12] Ghettuba-Pala is dedicated to developing creative talent and quality talent and as such has won many accolades for 18 television shows, 20 web shows and over 40 movies.^[13] Some of her renown projects include a popular Kiswahili TV show, Penzi la Sumu. Other films that she has produced are Lies that Bind, Saints and Higher Learning^[14]. The film mogul landed a job at Netflix as manager international originals in March 2019^[15] and was also appointed by the Kenyan government as chairperson Kenya Film Commission Board in May 2019.^[16] Ghettuba Pala is married to a Kenyan journalist Oyunga^{[citation needed]}.