Bio

Nyasha is an award-winning pan-African director and cinematographer who tells stories that traverse the continent and reflect alternative voices. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School. In 2015, her first film 'Through the Fire' about a recovering drug-user facing the demons of his past won the Audience Choice Award for a short documentary at Atlanta Docufest. Her short documentary 'Queens & Knights' about a gay and inclusive rugby team won first prize at the 2016 NBC Sports film contest Cptr’d and premiered at South by SouthWest. In 2019, she wrote, filmed and produced 'Sex and the Sugar Daddy' an extensive multimedia piece on transactional sex relationships in Kenya which was a finalist for the One World Media Awards in the Popular Feature and Digital Media categories. Nyasha's latest work includes 'Le Lac' a virtual reality documentary which looks at the effects of climate change and the Boko Haram insurgency around Lake Chad. 'Le Lac' won the Digital Narrative Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2019 and is currently on the festival circuit. And, her investigative documentary 'Imported for my Body' about cross-continental sex trafficking was shortlisted for the Amnesty Media Awards in 2020 and selected for the Human Rights Watch Festival in Kenya. Mostly recently Nyasha served as a juror for World Press Photo's digital storytelling contest and has been selected to participate in 2021's Berlinale Talents.

Filmography

• COME SUNRISE WE SHALL RULE
  Director, Scriptwriter, cinema fiction, 90 minutes, writing stage
  
• LE LAC
  Director, Documentary, 10 minutes, 2019
  Awards : 2020 One World Media Award Longlist / 2019 Sheffield DocFest - Digital Narrative Award Winner
  Festivals : Cairo International Film Festival, Hot Docs, Doc Leipzig, Camden Film Festival
  
• SEX AND THE SUGAR DADDY
  Director, Documentary, 6 minutes, 2019
  Awards : Finalist for the One World Media Awards in the Popular Feature and Digital Media catégorie
  Distribution : BBC News Africa
  
• IMPORTED FOR MY BODY
  Director, Documentaire , 51 minutes, 2019
  Awards : 2020 : Amnesty International Media Awards Shortlist / 2020 : Selection au Human Rights Watch Festival au Kenya
  Distribution : BBC News Africa
  
• THE STUDENT
  Director, Documentary, 4'38 minutes, 2018
  Awards : 2019 One World Media Awards - Popular Feature Finalist / 2019 One World Media Award - Digital Media Finalist
  Distribution : BBC News Africa
  
• QUEENS & KNIGHTS
  Director, Documentaire , 8 minutes, 2016
  Awards : Winner of the 2016 NBC Sports filmmaking contest 'Cptr'd'.
  Distribution : NBC Sports
  
• THROUGH THE FIRE
  Director, Documentaire , 23'32 minutes, 2015
  Awards : Atlanta Documentary Festival : Audience Choice Award