New Kenny Mann Film

Kenny Mann, a Sag Harbor filmmaker whose feature “Beautiful Tree, Severed Roots” was shown at the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival in 2013, has written and produced “The Mtepe Shungwaya Sails Again: A Tribute to the Boat-Builders of Lamu,” a new 13-minute documentary that will be shown at the Maritime Museum of San Diego on Friday, Oct. 2.

The mtepe was a type of boat that plied the East African coast for centuries. One was last seen in 1935. Constructed without nails, the boats were 100 feet long and 24 feet wide, with long arching prows. Ms. Mann’s film documents the construction and launch of a half-sized model overseen by Abdul Shariff of the Zanzibar Museum of Antiquities. The filmmaker undertook the project when she was in Zanzibar in July for the screening of “Beautiful Tree, Severed Roots” at the Zanzibar International Film Festival.