George Gachara, the producer of an internationally acclaimed Kenyan LGBTI film, will not go to prison.

He is the creator behind Stories of Our Lives, the award-winning documentary on the plight of LGBTI Kenyans.

The film is banned in Kenya for ‘promoting homosexuality’.

Gachara was arrested October 2014 on the grounds he was allegedly filming without a license in breach of The Film and Stage Plays Act and released on a cash bail of KES 10,000 ($110, â‚¬99).

NEST, the company behind the film, released a statement saying: ‘We can now announce that after numerous consultations with the Department of Film Services, the case against the NEST Collective – represented by George Gachara, the NEST Programs Director and Executive Producer of Stories Of Our Lives – for shooting the film without a license has been dropped.’.

The Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) deemed the film which follows the stories of five LGBTI people in Kenya unfit for the public due to ’obscenity, explicit scenes of sexual activities’ and ‘promoting homosexuality which is contrary to our national norms and values’.

On Gachara’s release, the KFCB has said Stories Of Our Lives will continue to be banned.

‘This, however, does not alter the restriction on the exhibition, sale and distribution of Stories Of Our Lives in Kenya, placed by the Kenya Film Classification Board on 2nd October 2014.’