Our Land, Our Freedom

Zippy Kimundu is a renowned Kenyan filmmaker who has worked in film and television globally. 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’. 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. She is the founder of Afrofilms International, a women-led film and TV production company based in Nairobi and Kilifi, Kenya.

Meena Nanji is Kenyan-born of Indian heritage, based in Los Angeles. She is an award-winning director/producer of feature documentaries, experimental and fiction shorts. Her work has been recognized by the Sundance Documentary Fund, Just Films, Perspective Fund, IDA, IDFA Bertha Fund. Her films have screened on television and at film festivals internationally and have focused on social-issue and gender rights and representation, including projects filmed in India, Afghanistan and Kenya. She is the Co-director/Co-Producer of the newly completed documentary, Our Land, Our Freedom, about a woman unearthing British colonial atrocities in Kenya, and her ongoing struggle for land rights.