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Agency reel, 2025. Editor.
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I'm Francis Njenga, known as Frnck. I've spent close to a decade editing documentary, long-form interview, music and brand films for international organisations, agencies and artists. I own the full post pipeline, from story structure to colour and sound, so what leaves my timeline is ready to publish.
2017
Editing professionally since
40TB+
Footage on my largest single project
What I bring
Story-first editing for any format: documentary, brand, music, social and interview, with colour, sound and motion in-house. I adapt to the team, the brief and the platform.
Clients I've worked with
African Development BankWorld Resources InstituteSpace for GiantsNaPORoamRoutesUnicorn ProgrammeFat JoeJillian MichaelsElujPowered by CueChris Kaiga
Still from the YouthADAPT series
Watch the seriesCase study 01, documentary series
YouthADAPT
6
Countries
40TB+
Source footage
1 year
In production
The brief
YouthADAPT is an annual challenge run by the Global Center on Adaptation, the African Development Bank and Climate Investment Funds, backing youth-led climate adaptation businesses across Africa. Each winner needed a film that made their work clear and human.
My role and approach
Edited a year-long, multinational series from more than 40TB of footage shot across six countries. Shaped every story into an 8 to 10 minute film with a consistent structure, grade and sound, so the series reads as one body of work.
The impact
[Add the result: views, where the films screened, or how AfDB and GCA used them.]
Still from The Unicorn Programme
Watch the filmCase study 02, long-form documentary
The Unicorn Programme
45 min
One continuous cut
10TB+
Canon C-Log footage
Multicam
Interview coverage
The brief
Unicorn Group invests in and trains early-stage tech founders across Africa. The programme needed one long-form documentary that held attention for 45 minutes and did justice to the founders in it.
My role and approach
Cut a 45-minute multicam documentary from over 10TB of Canon C-Log footage. Paper-edited the interviews into a clear structure before any polish, then graded from log in DaVinci Resolve so every camera felt like one world.
The impact
[Add the result: audience, screenings, or client response.]
Still from Wezesha, TerraFund for AFR100
Watch the filmCase study 03, impact film
TerraFund for AFR100
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Films delivered
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Languages
[#] min
Total runtime
The brief
WRI's TerraFund for AFR100 backs locally led land restoration across Africa. Wezesha tells that story through the people doing the work on the ground.
My role and approach
Edited community interviews and field footage into [number and length of films], keeping the voices of the people restoring the land at the centre of the story. [Add one detail about your approach.]
The impact
[Add the result: reach, where it was used, or client response.]
Still from the NaPO Conservation Cup film
Watch the filmsCase study 04, conservation films
Nature and People as One
2
Films: Ramat and NCC
550+ ha
Land restored through Ramat
2025
NaPO wins the UNDP Equator Prize
The brief
NaPO is a women- and youth-led Indigenous organisation restoring drylands around Mt. Marsabit with Rendille and Samburu pastoralists. It needed films for two programmes: Ramat, its restoration model, and the NaPO Conservation Cup, a youth football tournament.
My role and approach
Edited both films from field footage and community interviews, letting elders, women and young players tell the story in their own words. [Add one detail about your approach.]
The impact
The NCC film is featured on NaPO's website alongside its 2025 Equator Prize. [Add views, screenings or how NaPO used the films.]
More films
Conservation, community and brand stories for agencies and organisations working across Africa.
Music & film
Directing, editing and colour on music videos and short film. This is where I learned rhythm, pace, and how a grade carries emotion.
Mastingo
Kahu$h ft. Chris Kaiga, 2020
Directed, edited, graded
Panda Basi
Debe ft. Mvua, 2023
Directed, edited, graded
I Want
Chris Kaiga, 2019
Directed, edited, graded
Insha
Nairobi Ableton User Group, 2022
Directed, edited, graded
3 Suits
Short film for Luca, 2021
Directed, edited, graded
AI in my workflow
I use AI from the first transcript to the final frame. It speeds up the slow parts of editing and opens up new visuals, while the editorial calls stay mine.
Transcription
Hours of interviews become searchable text, so I find the strongest lines fast.
Story development
Transcript-based paper edits and structure drafts let me test story options before I commit on the timeline.
Motion and finishing
AI-assisted motion graphics, cleanup and upscaling to finish faster without cutting corners.
Image and video
Key art, editorial concepts, storyboards and generated shots with Nano Banana, GPT Image, Seedance and Kling.
AI image generation: editorial concepts and campaign key art
Social & paid
Recent short-form and performance work for international brands and creators. Built for the scroll: a hook in the first seconds, platform-native pacing, and captions that carry the story with the sound off.
Fat Joe
BTL Exomind and Emsculpt, social
Watch the reelEluj
The Founders Room
[Add reel link]Jillian Michaels
Emsculpt Neo, social
Watch the reelPowered by Cue
Edit and motion graphics
Watch the reelResults
6,200+
likes and 290 comments across the Fat Joe and Jillian Michaels reels.
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