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Zamo Mkhwanazi
Biography
Zamo Mkhwanazi is a filmmaker working between Johannesburg, South Africa and Switzerland. After studying copywriting, she earned a Loerie award within her first year of working for Ogilvy Cape Town. Moving into film, she wrote, directed and produced her first short film, Philia. Her second short, The Call, starring Fana Mokoena (World War Z), premiered at Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and screened at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival. Her short film, Gallo Rojo premiered at the 69th Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight. She was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab in September 2016 and Berlinale Talents 2017. In addition, Mkhwanazi has written more some two hundred hours of aired television on over twenty-five television shows. She was the head writer (Show Runner) of the critically acclaimed series Ya Lla (2015). She is currently developing her first feature, Laundry, a film based on her family's experiences during apartheid era of the 1960's. This project was developed with the Torino Script Lab and was shortlisted for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.