Akuol Garang de Mabior describes her work BlueBlack

Akuol Garang de Mabior is South Sudanese, was born in Cuba and grew up in Kenya. She has directed three short films: Tomato Soup (2017), Ihlazo (2017) and Fall into the Sky (2018). All three have screened at festivals and events around the world from the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa and the Durban International Film Festival in South Africa to the Pan African Film Festival in the US.

She is currently working on her first feature-length documentary, Nyandeng, which received the New Perspectives Seed Fund (2020) from Doc Society, the Whickers Film and TV Funding Award (2020) and the IDFA Bertha Classic Fund (2020).

Believing that the perspectives of African women are undervalued, she aims to create stories for the screen that reach African audiences and encourage a renewed way of seeing African identities and futures.