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Zippy Kimundu


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Zippy is an award-winning Kenyan Filmmaker who has been working in Film/TV for nearly two decades, across continents. She co-directed a short Documentary, a fork, a spoon & a KNIGHT with Mira Nair for Tribeca's Power of Word Series, and was the Assistant Editor on the Disney Film Queen of Katwe. Her latest feature Documentary Our Land, Our Freedom that she co-produced and co-directed, premiered a IDFA last year.

Zippy holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a Film Educator for under-represented communities, https://www.illtellyoumystory.com. She's also the founder of www.afrofilmsinternational.com, women-led Film and TV Production Company and Collective based in Nairobi and Kilifi, Kenya, working to ignite political consciousness, and action, across continents.

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Filmmakers of color often encounter pushback from the industry around how to tell our stories our way. We are nudged to sacrifice our vision, our creativity, and sometimes even the truth, in the name of commercial viability and mass audience appeal. How can we be supported to tell stories outside of the dominant gaze, if most formative spaces for international artists are trying to make a film “accessible” to a mass audience?

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