Ng'endo Mukii

Realness African Screenwriters' Residency 2018

Ng'endo Mukii is an award-winning writer-director best known for ‘Yellow Fever,’ her documentary-animation exploring Western influences on African women's ideals of beauty. At the prestigious Design Indaba conference (South Africa) she presented her talk, ‘Film Taxidermy and Re-Animation,’ proposing the use of animation as a means of re-humanising the ‘indigenous’ image; a people whose ‘real’ image is burdened with stereotypes of being the ‘Other.’ Ng’endo is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (USA), and holds a Master of Arts in Animation from the Royal College of Art in London (UK). She is an alumni of the beautiful Berlinale Talents (Germany), the distinguished Realness Screenwriter’s Residency (South Africa), the incredible Goethe Institute Bahia Vila Sul artists’ residency (Brazil), and the TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) Filmmaker Lab (Canada).

Her films have won numerous awards, including Silver Hugo for the Best Animated Short at the Chicago International Film Festival and the Encounters Immersive Grand Prix. Ng’endo is a Professor Of The Practice at The School Of The Museum Of Fine Arts in Boston. She is a director on Disney+’s inaugural all-African Animated anthology, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire.

Email: ngendo@ngendo.com