#  Colloquium with Rumbi Katedza: 'Filming Zimbabwe in Transition' 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 3, 2019** 

 12:00PM - 12:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

   ![Rumbi Katedza](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hutchins/files/rumbi_katedza.jpg?itok=WnLR_U9Q) 

 

Rumbi Katedza is a Zimbabwean filmmaker and writer, who has lived in the USA, Japan, Italy, Canada, the UK and Zimbabwe. She produces corporate and independent narrative and documentary content through her production company, **Mai Jai Films**, a company focused on pioneering a new generation of Zimbabwean films and filmmakers through creative co-productions.

 She has directed numerous music videos, films and TV shows, including the award-winning short film [*Asylum*](https://vimeo.com/114117154), TV drama *Big House, small house* and feature film [*Playing Warriors*](https://vimeo.com/125904730).

 Her TV drama series [*The Team*](http://www.sfcg.org/programmes/cgp/the-team-zimbabwe.html)*,* about a troubled football team in a small mining town, has been broadcast across Africa and Europe. In 2011, her documentary about survivors of election violence in Zimbabwe, [*The Axe and the Tree*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duT1pUbvbqU), was launched at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg.

 Rumbi is a former Festival Director of the Zimbabwe International Film Festival. She is also a voice-over artist and writer. Her articles and short stories have appeared in several publications including *Vertigo*, *AV Specialist*, *Hype!, Illuminations, Women Writing Zimbabwe* and *Our Stories – Winners of the BTA/Anglo Platinum Short Story Competition.* She was a member of the editorial teams at leading Zimbabwean publication, Parade Magazine, and *Ogojiii*, a magazine focusing on African innovation in design, enterprise and current affairs.

 As the J. M. D.  Manyika Fellow for Fall 2018, she will address the subject of *Refugees and Homeland.*

 

 



 

 

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