Clarisse took an unconventional road into the film industry which began when she partnered with U.S. based filmmaker Matthew Leutwyler to open Kigali based Lavana restaurant. After successfully creating one of Kigali’s most popular weekend hot spots, she opened a smaller cafe version Lavana on the other side of town. Leutwyler quickly realized her unique managerial talents and offered her a position as Production Manager on a slate of projects he and partner Anton Laines were putting together to film around East Africa for their newly formed production company, KG28MEDIA.

Her first project to go into production was the docu-series “FIght Like A Girl”. For the past 20 months, the series has been following the lives of four young female member of a boxing club run by a legendary Congolese boxing champion and ex-child soldier known as “Kibomango.” Clarisse oversaw numerous shoots in and around The Democratic Republic of Congo including the Congolese Boxing Championships in Kinshasa and challenging treks into war-torn areas of North Kivu in East Congo. In August 2022, the series took a short hiatus so the producers could shoot a scripted narrative feature based on the same boxing team. Clarisse remained on board as Production Manager of what is the first western narrative feature to be shot in the DRC. The film stars rising South African actress Ama Qamata (Star of the Netflix series “Blood and Water”) alongside Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Starz TV’s “Black Sails”, “Godzilla vs. Kong”, “Pirates of The Caribbean”) as a young Congolese woman forced to work in an illegal mineral mine who escapes her captors and finds a new life for herself after joining a renowned all-women boxing club in the border city of Goma. Leutwyler directed from his original script with Laines producing for KG28MEDIA. Yvette Gayle and Innocent Munyeshuri also serve as producers with Congolese NBA star Serge Ibaka and Colin Gayle of Africa Creative Agency on board as executive producers. The film is currently in post production.

Clarisse is next working with KG28MEDIA on the film “Dead Waters,” about Nigerian oil piracy, and a comedy series about “White Savior Complex” set against the East African NGO world.