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NG'ENDO MUKII

A3K Treasurer-2014.

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Ng'endo Mukii

TREASURER 2014

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. Her work focuses on the use of moving image to represent unspoken truths. At
the prestigious Design Indaba conference (2015), she presented her talk, ‘Film
Taxidermy and Re-Animation,’ proposing the use of animation as a means of rehumanizing the ‘indigenous’ image. 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 a Berlinale Talents alumni, participated in the distinguished Urucu Media REALNESS
Screenwriter’s Residency, and the incredible Goethe Institute Bahia Vila Sul artists
residency. Her films have won numerous awards, including Silver Hugo for Best
Animated Short at the Chicago International Film Festival, Best Short Film at the Africa
Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards, and the Encounters Immersive Grand Prix for her 360
film, Nairobi Berries.

nG'ENDO's mantra

"Kesho pia ni siku"
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