About
Akuol Garang de Mabior is South Sudanese and is based in Nairobi, 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.
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 African imagination.
Current Project
NYANDENG (Documentary Feature Film)
Status: in Production
As South Sudan hangs in the balance of a tenuous peace agreement, my mother, Nyandeng, prepares to become one of our country’s five vice presidents. Her mission is to safeguard her late husband, John Garang’s, vision for our people, our country, and our family. Her greatest fear is that my father along with millions of South Sudanese people died in vain. Her deepest yearning is for her children and the children of her compatriots to lead meaningful lives at home in South Sudan. But what does it mean to call South Sudan home?
A Lightbox Africa Production
Part of the Generation Africa Project by STEPS
Awarded the 2020 New Perspectives Seed Fund by Doc Society
Awarded the Whickers Film and TV Funding Award 2020
Selected to participate at Good Pitch East Africa in October 2020
Awarded the IDFA Bertha Classic Fund 2020
