Directrice de festival, scénariste, réalisatrice zimbabwéenne.

Rumbi KATEDZA est une directrice de festival, scénariste, réalisatrice.

She is known for pour "Transactions | De l'argent pour maman au Zimbabwe" (2022), "Asylum" (2007), "Trapped" (2006), "Playing Warriors | Jeux de guerrières" (2005).

Rumbi Katedza is a Zimbabwean filmmaker and writer who has directed narrative films and documentaries that have been broadcast across Africa and screened at dozens of international festivals and conferences. She is a former Festival Director of the Zimbabwe International Film Festival, and she now produces corporate and independent content through her production company Mai Jai Films.

Rumbi Katedza has directed numerous shorts, music videos, TV shows and documentaries that have been broadcast across Africa and screened at dozens of international festivals and conferences. Her feature film, "Playing Warriors", was nominated for awards at the African Movie Academy Awards, Shungu Namutitiwa Festival and Pan-African Film Festival in Los Angeles amongst others.
Rumbi produces corporate and independent narrative and documentary content through her production company Mai Jai Films. Her documentary credits include "Marange Voices", about communities adversely affected by the diamond rush in Zimbabwe, and "The Axe and the Tree", about survivors of post-election violence, which was launched by the Nelson Mandela Foundation in 2011.
Director Rumbi Katedza won the "Most Promising Emerging Filmmaker" award at the Images of Black Women Film Festival 2008.
Rumbi is a former Festival Director of the Zimbabwe International Film Festival. She was the Manyika Fellow at Hutchins Center for African and African American Research in 2019 and an Honorary Fellow at the The Film Study Center at Harvard University 2019-2020.
Rumbi is a highly motivated and dynamic person who has worked on several international productions in Africa and North America. She is a writer/director determined to produce innovative, new films for an international audience.


Former director of the Zimbabwe International Film festival, she is studying for an MA in Filmmaking at Goldsmiths College in the United Kingdom.

Rumbi Katedza is a filmmaker based in Harare, Zimbabwe, who has directed TV series, music videos and films. Her credits include the award-winning short film Asylum, TV drama Big House, small house and feature film Playing Warriors, all of which have screened at film festivals around the world. In 2011, her documentary about survivors of election violence in Zimbabwe, The Axe and the Tree, was launched by the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg.

Rumbi is a former Festival Director of the Zimbabwe International Film Festival. She produces independent fiction and documentary content through her production company, Mai Jai Films. Rumbi is the Fall 2019 JMD Manyika Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. She holds an MA in Filmmaking from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
She is a FSC-Harvard Fellow 2019-20, continuing 2020-21 (The Film Study Center, at Harvard University, USA).





Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
- Africiné Magazine (Dakar)
- https://2022.encounters.co.za/guest/rumbi-katedza/
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumbi_Katedza
- https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/fellows-works/rumbi-katedza/
- www.generationafrica.co.za/films/transactions/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 16 May 2025