# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ayoka-chenzira
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:32:09.556Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ayoka-chenzira"
name: "Ayoka Chenzira"
slug: "ayoka-chenzira"
description: "Ayoka \"Ayo\" Chenzira is an independent African-American producer, film director, television director, animator, writer, experimental filmmaker, and transmedia storyteller. She is the first African American woman animator and one of a handful of Black experimental filmmakers working since the late 1970s. She has earned international acclaim for her experimental, documentary, animation, and cross-genre filmmaking productions. Her work, as well as her efforts as one of the first African American woman film educators, have led some in the press to describe her as a media activist for social justice and challenging stereotype representations of African Americans in the mainstream media."
tagline: "American filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ayoka_Chenzira.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1953-11-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.44
  momentum:             0.07272727272727274
  historical:           5.076638666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155704/"
    handle:    "nm0155704"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://ayomentary.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayoka_Chenzira"
    title: "Ayoka Chenzira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "ايوكا تشينزيرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayoka_Chenzira"
    title: "Ayoka Chenzira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayoka_Chenzira"
    title: "Ayoka Chenzira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7_%DA%86%D9%86%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%81"
    title: "ایوکا چنزیرہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14594557"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1470958"
    title: "Ayoka Chenzira"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump