Kudi Maradzika

Episodic Lab 2021

Passionate about where story and business meet, Kudi is a Zimbabwean-born multi-award-winning actress, writer, executive producer, and content specialist working in the content creation space. A multi-award (SAFTA, Promax, African Film Academy Award, and Loerie) winning and nominated executive producer and content specialist, a 2016 Standard Bank Rising Star Award semi-finalist, a 2021 Netflix Episodic Lab Finalist as well as a nominee for the 2019 Zimbabwe Achiever's Award Nominee for 'Best Media Production Practitioner', Kudi is also a scriptwriter whose feature film script was a shortlist for the 2018 Sundance Feature Film Writer's Lab.

A gifted voice-over actor, Kudi’s voice has featured in regional and global campaigns for Discovery Bank, BBC, and Audi. Kudi is a trained theatre actress, having studied at UCT Hiddingh Campus. Her notable acting achievements include a 2006 African Film Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in ‘Tanyaradzwa’. With 12 years of experience in scripted, unscripted formats in various mediums such as TV series, features, animation, digital and short-form production, Kudi has functioned in the capacity of managing commissioning editor and executive producer at Paramount Africa (2018 to 2022) producing content for AVOD, SVOD, free-to-air, and PAY TV platforms and platforms such as Showmax, M-Net, BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and YouTube.

Kudi is passionate about creative storytelling and understands content strategy for a burgeoning studio business, content production, and the overall content value chain, including post-production, programming, packaging, localization, delivery, and licensing for broadcast and online content. Kudi is currently in development with her first scripted series, ‘Bad Influencer’ for Netflix Africa through her company Lincoln Green Media.

Email: hey@kudisco.com