Ng'endo Mukii is an Annie award-winning and British Animation Award nominated film director. She is most well known for ‘Enkai,’ an episode on the Disney+ animated anthology, Kizazi Moto.

At the prestigious Design Indaba conference in South Africa, she presented her talk ‘Film Taxidermy and Re-Animation,’ proposing the use of animation as a means of re-humanizing the ‘indigenous’ image; a people whose ‘real’ image is burdened with stereotypes of being the ‘Other.’

Ng’endo is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and holds a Master of Arts in Animation from the Royal College of Art in London. She is an alumni of the beautiful Berlinale Talents, the distinguished Urucu Media REALNESS Screenwriter’s Residency (South Africa), and the incredible Goethe Institute Bahia

Vila Sul artists’ residency (Brazil).

Her mixed-media and inter-genre approach to filmmaking, particularly focused on the experiences of African women, gives her an incredibly unique visual language and makes her a preeminent voice in animation.

She lives and works in Boston, as a Professor of the Practice at The Museum School (SMFA) at TUFTS University.

Mike Buckland is the Director of Production at Triggerfish Animation and has served on the company’s leadership team since 2006. He has produced award-winning films including Adventures in Zambezia, Khumba, and Seal Team for Netflix.

He co-produced the Oscar-nominated Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes and several acclaimed Julia Donaldson adaptations for the BBC. More recent credits include Kiya & The Kimoja Heroes for Disney, Supa Team 4 for Netflix, Aau’s Song for Star Wars: Visions Season 2, and Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire for Disney+.

His leadership has been instrumental in establishing Triggerfish as Africa’s first truly global animation studio

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