Tufts Women Take the Reel Film Festival: shorts (+ director)

Tufts Women Take the Reel Film Festival: shorts (+ director)

Building: Barnum Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Location TBD Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Film Screening,Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Arts,Humanities Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Film and Media Studies program Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Film and Media Studies Speaker Name: Ng’endo Mukii Event Contact Name: Gina O'Connor Event Contact Email: gina.o_connor@tufts.edu Screening and discussion with director, writer, and professor Ng’endo Mukii. Presented as part of the Boston Women Take the Reel Film Festival. Annie award winning and British Animation award nominated Writer and Director, Ng'endo Mukii, will present a collection of short, animated films spanning a decade of work. She will surface the themes and process of her work, contextualizing them in her heritage as a Kenyan, and her experience as part of the Afro diaspora. Ng'endo Mukii is an Annie award-winning and British Animation Award-nominated film director. She is most well known for ‘Enkai,’ an episode on the Disney+ animated anthology, Kizazi Moto. At the prestigious Design Indaba conference she presented her talk, ‘FilmTaxidermy and Re-Animation,’ proposing the use of animation as a means of re-humanizing the ‘indigenous’ image; a people whose ‘real’ image is burdened with stereotypes of being the ‘Other.’ 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 an alumni of the beautiful Berlinale Talents, the distinguished Urucu Media REALNESS Screenwriter’s Residency, and the incredible Goethe Institute Bahia Vila Sul artists’ residency. Her mixed-media and inter-genre approach to filmmaking, particularly focused on the experiences of indigenous African women, gives her an incredibly unique visual language and a preeminent voice in animation.​ She lives and works in Boston, as a Professor of the Practice at SMFA at TUFTS University

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