Currently based between Malawi and South Africa, Nyembezi is a writer and director whose work explores how history and culture meet contemporary life.
About
Nyembezi is a filmmaker and cultural media interrogator working across documentary, fiction and video art. Formerly an advertising art director, she moved into independent storytelling after earning an Honours degree in English Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand and completing a filmmaker programme at the National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa. She first wrote and directed 'On Isibindi Street', a 24-minute fiction film exploring the tension between culture and the law which premiered on SABC1 to over 2.5 million live viewers, and later aired on Amazon Prime. Her recent non-fiction works confront how African lives are framed, and includes 'The March of Hollowmen' which was created for the Reuters Screenocean ‘Make Film History Challenge’, a competition which engaged over 100 filmmakers from around the world. As a global finalist, the film premieres online via Sheffield DocFest this coming spring.
