Lwazi Duma is a self-made filmmaker who grew up in the rural village of Umgangeni South Coast of Durban. He has been doing short films for more then ten years .Lwazi made his mark in 2018 when his short film that was produced in Mpumalanga got nominated for best film at the African Emerging Filmmakers Awards. He later got nominated at the Simon Sabela Awards as well as the 48 hour film competition in Durban. After completing his film and television production learnership in 2020 Lwazi produced his environmental documentary which speaks about the effects and change in climate in the agricultural sector and he got funded by the KZN film commission and the National Film and Video Foundation.