Sydney Taivavashe | |
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Born | 1991 | (age 33)
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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]
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]
Year | Ceremony | Award | Result |
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2014 | National Arts Merit Awards | Outstanding Film Through the Night[14] | Nominated |
2016 | Zimbabwe International Film Festival | Best International Director | Nominated |
2017 | National Arts Merit Awards | Outstanding Short Film Seiko[15] | Won |
2020 | Pan-African Film Festival | Programmers Best First Feature Narrative Gonarezhou[16] | Won |
2020 | Pan-African Film Festival | Best First Feature Director[17] | Won |