Ng'endo Mukii
This week's WCW is Ng'endo Mukii , who is a Nairobi based independent filmmaker, and an award-winning film director. Ng'endo Mukii, runs her own art and animation studio in Nairobi, where she works on both independent and commissioned short films. Ng'endo Mukii holds a Master of Arts from the Royal College of Art (2012) in London, and a Bachelor of Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design (2006), USA.
She is widely known for her docu-animation 'yellow-fever'. The animation-documentary explores western influences on the ideals of beauty on the African woman. Her work focuses on relationships & the use of film to emulate unspoken truths. At the prestigious Design Indaba, she presented her talk ‘Film Taxidermy and Re- Animation,’ proposing the use of animation as a means of re-humanizing the indigenous image.
Her films have won numerous awards, including Best Short Film at the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards both for Yellow Fever; and the Encounters Immersive Grand Prix for her first 360 film, Nairobi Berries and the Silver Hugo for Best Animated Short film at the Chicago International Film Festival.
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