Ekwa Msangi

Profile

Ekwa Msangi has written & directed several shorts, most recently award-winning comedy SOKO SONKO (THE MARKET KING), and FAREWELL MEU AMOR starring Tony Award nominee Sahr Ngauja, and actress Nana Mensah of the famed series An African City. For FAREWELL AMOR Ekwa was awarded the Jerome Foundation Grant, Tribeca All Access Fellowship, Cine Qua Non Lab Fellowship, IFP/No Borders, and Sundance Feature Film Development Fellowship. Ekwa has also written and directed several drama series for mainstream broadcasters in Kenya and MNET South Africa, including The Agency, MNET’s first-ever original hour-long Kenyan drama series.

In the past Ekwa has been adjunct faculty at Tisch School of the Arts, as well as a recurring mentor in Mira Nair’s East Africa based Maisha Screenwriting Labs. Currently, Ekwa is the resident educational instructor with the African Film Festival, and has taught Screenwriting at The New School and Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn College. One of Ekwa’s key goals as an artist is to transform our society’s images and relationships with African cultures, and to empower African filmmakers in telling their stories.

(Visiting Faculty teach for the MFA in Film Program on an ad hoc and irregular basis.)