Tiny Mungwe

Tiny Mungwe worked for seven years at STEPS where she has produced Generation Africa, a collection of 25 films, from 16African countries on migration and a collections of 11 short films for Mzansi in a time of Covid. She also developed the current collection of films being produced at STEPS – Generation Africa 2.0 – a collection of stories from 25 countries in Africa addressing the climate collapse from an African lens.

Through her own production company CTRL ALT Shift, she recently started the festival release of the feature doc Womxn: Working. She has written Evelyn and directed Daddy’s Boy, both short films, and directed and produced Akekho uGogo, a med-length documentary. Her TV work includes writing for Muvhango, Matatiele and directing on Uzalo.

Mungwe has also organised and programmed festivals including four international festivals: Time of the Writer, the Durban International Film Festival, Jomba! Contemporary Dance Festival and Poetry Africa and curated film programs for Durban FilmMart, Talents Durban. She is the co-founder of Engage, an itinerant knowledge production initiative consisting of think tanks and industry dialogue about the ext horizons for the African screens. She has worked as a mentor at DFM, Great Lakes Producers Lab, Hotdocs and with EFM Toolbox programme. She is been a programme advisor for Africa at Locarno Film Festival and currently works as a member of the artistic team for Locarno Open Doors’ focus on Africa for 2025-28. Mungwe is also part of the Toronto Film Festival’s programming team as a preselector for the MENA region.

She is part of the DFM Future Mentors programme as a contributor, curriculum and trainer. He does mentoring the Durban Film Mart, Great Lakes Creative Producers Lab in East Africa and Hotdoc Blue Ice Group Fund for 2025/6. She is also the founder of Ehozini Retreat, an artist residency in Maphephetheni, eThekwini. Ehozini produces talent labs for the film industry including Ilembe Story Lab and Mayibuye Doc Lab. She was a participant in the 2024 EAVE producers workshop.