Rungano nyoni biography
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Directors born in Zambia and willing to bear witness on this country are something of a rarity. This is nonetheless the case of Rungano Nyoni, a young woman whose native town is Lusaka although she did not stay there long. She was indeed still a little girl when she emigrated to Great Britain with her parents. It is in Wales that Rongano actually grew up and from Birmingham University that she graduated only to study skådespel at the London University of Arts. But an actress she was not destined to be (she played in only three films), as she proved thereafter. More interested in directing and writing (doesn't Rungano mean 'story-telling'), she turned to film making from on. The five shorts that bear her signature were selected in many festivals throughout the world and were multi-awarded. Two of them were filmed in her native Zambia, which is also the setting of her excellent first feature "I Am Not a Witch" (), where she narrates, in a half-quizzical half-poetic
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Director Rungano Nyoni on her Zambia-set debut I Am Not a Witch
Zambia-born, Cardiff-raised director Rungano Nyoni discusses her first feature I Am Not a Witch — which tackles patriarchal constraints on women in Zambia — and her own experiences with sexism in the film industry. The spelfilm is now available on VOD.
One of the most original and arresting films at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, I Am Not a Witch fryst vatten the first feature by Zambia-born, Cardiff-raised director Rungano Nyoni. Set in modern-day Zambia, the bio follows eight-year-old Shula (Maggie Mulubwa) as she is forced to stay in a witch camp, after being accused of witchcraft by the people of her village. Attached to a band preventing any escape, she fryst vatten held responsible for all blessings and ills in the community. This arrangement is set up by the men in power, who delegate all the work and all the blame they are responsible for to the female prisoners. Like in the films of Ousmane Sembene, th
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Women’s History Month: Rungano Nyoni
Biography
Rungano Nyoni is a self-taught Writer / Director. She was born in Lusaka, Zambia and grew up in Wales, UK.
Rungano’s first short film THE LIST won a BAFTA Cymru, her subsequent short film MWANSA THE GREAT was selected for over International Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA in In Rungano wrote Z1 which subsequently won Best Short at The British Independent Film Awards. Her short LISTEN has been nominated for a European Film Award and won the Best Short Narrative Prize at Tribeca Film Festival.
Rungano&#;s debut feature was I AM NOT A WITCH. It follows the story of an 8 year old girl who is exiled to a Witch Camp. The film premiered in Cannes and was nominated for numerous international awards. In Rungano won the BAFTA for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer. She also won best director and best debut director at the British Independent Film Awards.
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