Nyembezi …

Nyembezi is a writer and director working across documentary and fiction. Formerly an art director in corporate advertising, she moved into independent socially-conscious storytelling by first earning an Honours degree in English Literature from University of Witwatersrand and completing a one-year filmmaker programme at the National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa. She first wrote and directed ‘On Isibindi Street’, a 24-minute drama film exploring the tension between legal and cultural expectations which premiered on SABC1, and later aired on Amazon Prime. She is a 2026 Africa fellow of the Solutions Storytelling Project via the Video Consortium. Her most recent work, ‘The March of Hollowmen’, is 6-minute archive-driven essay film which confronts how her great-grandfather and other African soldiers are framed in Word War narratives, and can be watched online via Reuters.