IT Partner with me

Founder, Bivayn Multimedia

Dubai

IvanTuryatunga

I build media companies: Bivayn Multimedia, ContentNow, CineCongress and, next, SkillExplora.

Based in
Dubai and Kampala
Work
Founder, filmmaker, teacher
Since
Year you started

I started behind a camera, making documentaries and adverts in Uganda. Today I build the things that let media get made and taught: a production company, a content service, a school and, next, a learning platform, all from Dubai.

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My story

I have spent about ten years in documentary and communication work, most of it for organisations that needed their work to be understood clearly.

That work taught me that good media is rarely about one great shoot. It is about everything around it: how a project is briefed, planned, shot, edited and delivered, every time, without drama.

So I stopped only making films and started building companies. Each one is a different answer to the same question: how do you make professional media easier to get, easier to learn and easier to trust?

  1. Year

    Behind the camera

    I started as a filmmaker in Uganda, working as Ivan Turyatunga Films: adverts, documentaries, music videos and travel films for football clubs, airlines, churches and brands.

  2. Year

    Bivayn Multimedia

    The film work grew into a company. Bivayn Multimedia produces documentaries, brand films and interviews for NGOs, organisations and agencies across Africa and the Middle East.

  3. Year

    Dubai

    I moved the company’s base to the UAE, and now work between Dubai and Kampala.

  4. Year

    CineCongress

    I started teaching what I had learned. CineCongress is our online media production school, with short courses in shooting and editing.

  5. Year

    ContentNow

    We launched ContentNow in Dubai: professional photo and video, ordered in a few taps and delivered ready to download.

  6. Now

    SkillExplora

    I am starting SkillExplora, a learning platform for the UAE with classes taught by people at the top of their field.

“Ivan took time to understand the brief and visit locations ahead of filming, which showed clearly in the final work.”

Lucy Shearer, Partnerships Officer at PEAS

02

What I’ve built

The parent company

Bivayn Multimedia

A media company working across Africa and the Middle East. It holds the brands below and produces documentaries and brand films through Bivayn Productions.

bivayn.com

Content, ordered and delivered

ContentNow

A content service in Dubai. You order professional photo and video in a few taps, our crew shoots it, and your content is delivered ready to download.

contentnow.ae

Online media production school

CineCongress

Short, focused courses for people who want to shoot and edit professional vertical content and turn it into work.

cinecongress.com

Starting now

SkillExplora

A learning platform for the UAE: classes taught by people at the top of their field, made to the standard of a film.

In development
03

Ideas and videos

Every industry got an operating system, except media.

That is the idea I keep coming back to, and the one I talk about online. I break down how media actually works, one piece at a time, so that the people making it can build something that lasts.

  1. 01

    Money

    How media gets paid for, and who actually pays.

  2. 02

    Platforms

    What the platforms reward, and what that does to the work.

  3. 03

    Economics

    Why some media businesses scale and most do not.

  4. 04

    Audience

    How attention is earned, kept and lost.

  5. 05

    Region

    What changes when you make media in Africa and the Gulf.

  6. 06

    Technology

    The tools reshaping how media is made, including AI.

  7. 07

    People

    The crews, creators and teams behind the work.

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Partner with me

Invite me in.

Brands and organisations invite me in to speak, to produce and to train their teams, in the UAE and East Africa.

  1. Speak

    Keynotes, talks and panels on how media gets made and how media businesses get built.

  2. Produce

    Bring me in to direct or produce your film, documentary or campaign.

  3. Train your team

    Workshops and training for in-house marketing, content and communication teams.

  4. Advise

    A working session on your media and content: what to make, how to make it and how to keep it going.

  5. Appear

    Interviews, podcasts and guest sessions.