Zippy Kimundu

Zippy is a renowned Kenyan filmmaker who has worked in the film and television all over the world. She co-directed a short documentary, A Fork, A Spoon and A Knight with Mira Nair for Tribeca Film Institute’s ‘Power of Word Series’, and was the assistant editor on the Disney film Queen of Katwe. Zippy holds a masters in Fine Arts from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a film educator for under-represented communities at I’ll Tell You My Story, who give storytelling workshops in Africa for teenage refugee girls. Besides this, she is the founder of Afrofilms International, a women-led film and TV production company and creative collective based in Nairobi and Kilifi, Kenya, and is currently working to ignite political consciousness and action across continents.