Kenyan film director Ng'endo Mukii selected to be part of Disney produced anthology 'Kizazi Moto.'

19 June 2021

•70 Directors were invited to pitch stories, and I'm really grateful to have been selected in the final group of 10.

Kenyan Film director Ngendo Mukii has been selected to be part of #KizaziMoto, which is an original anthology of African animated films being produced in collaboration with @triggerfishanimation

According to Mukii, she was among 70 directors who had been chosen to pitch and defend their ideas and emerged among the top 10.

Through her social media, an excited Mukii shared

‘’I'm suuuuuuuper excited to finnnnnallllyyyy announce that I'm part of the

#KizaziMoto : #GenerationFire @disneyplus Original anthology of African animated films being produced in collaboration with @triggerfishanimation ✊💃✊ It's been a grueling year of pitching, writing, working with character designers, environment artists, being critiqued, holding my breath, hoping, feeling like a flat pancake, losing focus, gaining vision. ✨✨ 70 Directors were invited to pitch stories, and I'm really grateful to have been selected in the final group of 10.... As in... wooooo! #CompeNiCompe ! 😅’’

She also thanked everyone who supported her adding that without them she would not have achieved this.

‘’I am sooooo very thankful for the support and guidance from an incredible team of animation veterans and peers, for helping us get here. 😭😭 On this post, I want to highlight and thank the team that worked on the visual development of my film, Enkai. Thank you for capturing my vision and bringing this intimate and beautiful world to life. 😍🥰✨ Character Design: @avandu.af and @michelle.kao (https://www.artstation.com/michellekao) Environment Design: @carmenziervogel Art Direction: Art by @caroline_vos Click the link below to read more about the anthology on @variety and check out how beautiful our films look! They'll be coming out at the end of 2022. Congratulations to all the teams!