Ayoka Chenzira
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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.
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Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People
Alma's Rainbow
Zajota and the Boogie Spirit
MOTV (My Own TV)
Syvilla: They Dance To Her Drum
The Lure and the Lore
Williamswood
HERadventure
Snowfire
In the Rivers of Mercy Angst
Pull Your Head to the Moon: Stories of Creole Women54 credits on file
Television 7
Dynasty
Greenleaf
4400
Beacon 23
A League of Their Own
Kindred
Toon In with MeDirectors from United States 6
About this person
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.
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