Sydney Taivavashe
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- Director
- screenwriter
- producer
Sydney Taivavashe | |
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| Born | 1991 (age 33–34) |
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| Known for | Filmmaking |
| Notable work | Gonarezhou: The Movie |
| Awards | National Arts Merit Awards |
Sydney Taivavashe (born March 20,1991) is a Zimbabwean film director, producer and screenwriter.[1][2]
Sydney Taivavashe was born in 1991 in Masvingo, Zimbabwe where he grew up.[3]
Career
Sydney made his debut film in 2006, a short film titled The Terrific Nights.[4] His first feature film Through The Night was nominated at 2014 National Arts Merit Awards in the outstanding feature film category.[5]
In 2017, Sydney won a NAMA award for directing Seiko, a silent short film.[6] In the same year he partnered with the Great Zimbabwe University to produce a feature film titled Solo naMutsai, portraying the experience of students at the university who succumb to peer pressure.[7] In 2019, Sydney wrote, directed and produced an anti-poaching awareness film titled Gonarezhou: The Movie.[8] The film had its world premiere at the Pan African Film Festival in Hollywood in February of 2020.[9] Sydney's next film was the 2021 biopic film The Story of Nehanda a movie about the trial of Zimbabwean iconic spirit medium Mbuya Nehanda.[10][11]
In 2022, Sydney received another National Art Merit Award for his film Poor Cousins which won the Outstanding Screen Production- Full length film award.[12]
Filmography
- Tamba Wakachengera 2013
- Through the night 1 2013
- Through the night 2 2016
- Seiko (Short Film) 2017
- Solo naMutsai 2018
- Gonarezhou: The Movie 2020[13]
- The Story of Nehanda 2021
- Poor Cousins 2021