# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rungano-nyoni
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:25:49.454Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rungano-nyoni"
name: "Rungano Nyoni"
slug: "rungano-nyoni"
description: "Rungano Nyoni is a Zambian-Welsh director, screenwriter and actress. She is best known for her feature-length films I Am Not a Witch and On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, both of which she wrote and directed. Both films received extensive international accolades. I Am Not a Witch won Nyoni the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut in 2018. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl earned her the 2024 Cannes Film Festival's Best Director - Un Certain Regard (Ex-aequo) award."
tagline: "Film Director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/wliVrt4xI7iLMUxJxVEz97FPPeI.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1982-05-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.621621621621621
  historical:           15.37628133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2509638"
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    url:       "http://rungano.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump