Future Mentors Team Member
Tiny Mungwe
Bio
Tiny Mungwe is a filmmaker, producer and arts manager. As a filmmaker she currently works as a producer at STEPS (Social Transformation and Empowerment Projects) where she producing Generation Africa 2.0, a pan-African anthology of creative documentary films on the topic of climate action in Africa. She was producer on the last STEPS film collection, Generation Africa – 25 films from 16 African countries about migration. Her role in the project includes supporting the financing of the films, offering editorial support and mentorship to the filmmakers and producers and connecting the teams to a wider international documentary network to help realise their creative vision and for their professional growth.
Mungwe’s early career was in radio, where she started on campus radio at Tuks FM and went on to work as a producer and co-presenter on KZN regional radio station P4 Radio’s breakfast show Breakfast with the Girls as well as presenting on East Coast Radio.
Mungwe studied film and television production at Movietech Film and Video College as well as AFDA School of Motion Picture. She wrote, produced and directed Akekho uGogo a 48 minute documentary about urban youth culture which screened at several festivals including the Durban International Film Festival, Apollo Film Festival and DOKANEMA Festival. Her short film script Evelyn, was selected for the NFVF Women Filmmaker Project and she directed another short film in the programme, Daddy’s Boy. She was a writer on the SABC drama Muvhango and the e.tv series Matatiele. She worked as director on leading South African soapie Uzalo.
Mungwe worked for several years as manager of programmes at the Centre for Creative Arts (UKZN) where she organised four international cultural festivals including Time of the Writer, the Durban International Film Festival, Jomba! Contemporary Dance Festival and Poetry Africa. She worked on the Industry programme of the film festival overseeing the programme of the Durban FilmMart (a film co-production market of the festival) and Talents Durban (a career development programme for emerging African filmmakers). She continues to as a programme curator for the DFM. She also programmed and curated the city of Durban’s inaugural book and art fair, ARTiculate Africa in 2016. She is recently opened Ehozini Retreat, a pan-African artist retreat on the outskirts of Durban which will be a place for imagining great African futures.
Mungwe’s early career was in radio, where she started on campus radio at Tuks FM and went on to work as a producer and co-presenter on KZN regional radio station P4 Radio’s breakfast show Breakfast with the Girls as well as presenting on East Coast Radio.
Mungwe studied film and television production at Movietech Film and Video College as well as AFDA School of Motion Picture. She wrote, produced and directed Akekho uGogo a 48 minute documentary about urban youth culture which screened at several festivals including the Durban International Film Festival, Apollo Film Festival and DOKANEMA Festival. Her short film script Evelyn, was selected for the NFVF Women Filmmaker Project and she directed another short film in the programme, Daddy’s Boy. She was a writer on the SABC drama Muvhango and the e.tv series Matatiele. She worked as director on leading South African soapie Uzalo.
Mungwe worked for several years as manager of programmes at the Centre for Creative Arts (UKZN) where she organised four international cultural festivals including Time of the Writer, the Durban International Film Festival, Jomba! Contemporary Dance Festival and Poetry Africa. She worked on the Industry programme of the film festival overseeing the programme of the Durban FilmMart (a film co-production market of the festival) and Talents Durban (a career development programme for emerging African filmmakers). She continues to as a programme curator for the DFM. She also programmed and curated the city of Durban’s inaugural book and art fair, ARTiculate Africa in 2016. She is recently opened Ehozini Retreat, a pan-African artist retreat on the outskirts of Durban which will be a place for imagining great African futures.
Country
South Africa
