Ng'endoMukii
Director, Ng'endo Studios Limited
Ng'endo Mukii is an award-winning film director most well known for ‘Yellow
Fever,’ her documentary-animation exploring Western influences on African
women's ideals of beauty.
At the prestigious Design Indaba conference she presented her talk, ‘Film
Taxidermy and Re-Animation,’ proposing the use of animation as a means of
rehumanising 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, and holds a
Master of Arts in Animation from the Royal College of Art. She is an alumni of
the beautiful Berlinale Talents, the distinguished Urucu Media REALNESS
Screenwriter’s Residency, and the incredible Goethe Institute Bahia Vila Sul
artists’ residency.
She is a writer on Netflix’s Mama K’s Team 4 series, and is one of 10
directors selected for the upcoming Disney+ and Triggerfish animated
anthology, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire.