Ekwa’s award-winning and critically acclaimed feature film Farewell Amor premiered in competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, garnering 100% on Rottentomatoes, and was bought for distribution by IFC Films. Previous to that, she has written & directed several shorts, most recently award-winning comedy Soko Sonko (The Market King), and Farewell Meu Amor starring Tony Award nominee Sahr Ngauja, and actress Nana Mensah of the famed series An African City. For Farewell Amor Ekwa was awarded the Jerome Foundation Grant, Tribeca All Access Fellowship, Cine Qua Non Lab Fellowship, IFP/No Borders, and Sundance Feature Film Development Fellowship. Ekwa has also written & directed several drama series for mainstream broadcasters in Kenya and MNET South Africa, including The Agency, MNET’s first-ever original hour-long Kenyan drama series. In the past Ekwa has been adjunct faculty at Tisch School of the Arts, as well as a recurring mentor in Mira Nair’s East Africa based Maisha Screenwriting Labs. Currently, Ekwa is the resident educational instructor with the African Film Festival, and teaches Screenwriting at The New School and Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn College. One of Ekwa’s key goals as an artist is to transform our society’s images and relationships with African cultures, and to empower African filmmakers in telling their stories.
KFW Mathare 4A School
2009
- Directed by: Ekwa Msangi
- DP: Eric Ndung’u
A 20 minute documentary commissioned by KFW Bankengruppe to capture their building of a new primary school in one of Kenya’s poorest slums, Mathare.
The Baba Project
2003
- Directed and edited by: Ekwa Msangi
After the sudden death and whirlwind funeral of my father, Prof K.F. Msangi, in January 2003, I found myself back in New York two weeks later with nothing but an album of some old pictures. I picked up the phone and started calling his friends and close family to ask them what they remembered most about his life.
A short film made for my Oral-History class at Gallatin, NYU with Prof. Judith Sloan.
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📹 Just loved this young Queen’s enthusiasm and excitement for our film. Thank you @tricia_theangel for the love, it means so much! Aluta Continua! PS. We’re on @netflixsa only in Africa, on @ifcfilms platforms in North America and @mubi... https://t.co/NoX1BWZZB4
Just posted a video @ Brooklyn, New York https://t.co/CvhopINq67
I simply adore John Akomfrah and it was truly an honor to have this chat with him about my first film. Onwards! https://t.co/Xzx92cRenj
Really fun interview! https://t.co/ZHKcu28fa6
In this first episode, we chat with Ekwa Msangi, writer and director of the award-winning and critically acclaimed feature film, Farewell Amor. https://t.co/Y8G8wtEDbx https://t.co/f5LMkKLEXf
📷 Today marks 18 years since my Baba transitioned. Its also the week that would’ve marked his 56th wedding anniversary! Its a time of big transitions in my world as well as the wide world and I always try to remember how much zest and... https://t.co/A6fHdLW4oO
Just posted a photo https://t.co/mX5ZvpBUL3
📹 Just loved this young Queen’s enthusiasm and excitement for our film. Thank you @tricia_theangel for the love, it means so much! Aluta Continua! PS. We’re on @netflixsa only in Africa, on @ifcfilms platforms in North America and @mubi... https://t.co/NoX1BWZZB4
Just posted a video @ Brooklyn, New York https://t.co/CvhopINq67
@TambayObenson We give thanks for you as well dear Tambay!!
I simply adore John Akomfrah and it was truly an honor to have this chat with him about my first film. Onwards! https://t.co/Xzx92cRenj
FAREWELL AMOR, a tender family drama from @ekwapics that delighted critics at @sundancefest, is #NowShowing https://t.co/r52szcBfk3