Tsitsi Dangarembga

Milestones

1983 - First drama THE LOST OF THE SOIL performed at University of Zimbabwe

1984 - 2nd drama, SHE NO LONGER WEEPS performed at University of Zimbabwe

1985 - wins third place in a Swedish International Development Agency short story competition Southern Africa with her short story

THE LETTER

1987 - SHE NO LONGER WEEPS published by the College Press in Harare; it subsequently becomes a set book for Zimbabwean secondary school students until today

1988 - NERVOUS CONDITIONS published to critical acclaim; the novel goes on to become a set book in schools and universities world wide

1988 - writes story for NERIA, one of Zimbabwe’s highest grossing films of all time

1989 - joins Capricorn Video Unit as resource person, researcher and production assistant

1989 - one of 21 candidates out of a pool of 1200 to gain entry to German Film and Television Academy Berlin DFFB

1989 - co-writes script for FLAME, feature film on Zimbabwe liberation struggle

1989 - wins Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Africa region with NERVOUS CONDITIONS

1992 - founds Nyerai Films with the aim of adapting works of African fiction to film

1993 - 2000 several documentaries made for German television channels

Nyerai Films Weblink

1995 - co-writes & co-directs EVERYONE’S CHILD, her first full length feature

1996 - graduates from DFFB with distinction

1997 - teaches seminar “An Introduction to African Film” at Humboldt University, Berlin

1998 - joins Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe, an organisation formed to produce African women’s films

1998 - Grand jury member, Southern African Film Festival, Harare

Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe Weblink

1999 -Guest Lecturer, Distinguished African Women Series Rutgers University, New Jersey

2001 - Martin Luther King Fellow lecturing in African film at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

2002 - founds International Images Film Festival for Women, then the only women’s film festival in sub-Saharan Africa, a festival screening films with women in lead roles and exhibiting women's cultural production, and directs it until 2011

2004 - releases the ground-breaking short film KARE KARE ZVAKO-MOTHER'S DAY to festival success, including Sundance, prizes at the Zimbabwe International Film Festival and winning The Golden Dhow at the Zanzibar International Film Festival

2005 - produces PERETERA MANETA - SPELL MY NAME short film, which went on to win several prizes on the continent

PERETERA MANETA TrailerPERETERA MANETA Trailer

KARE KARE ZVAKO-MOTHER’S DAY Trailer

2006 - publishes

THE BOOK OF NOT, her second novel

2006 – Gender Equality in the Media Award Southern Africa, for documentary GROWING STRONGER

2007- Arts Personality of the Year, National Arts Merit Awards

2007 - Jury member, Fadj International Film Festival, Iran

2007 - Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, Poughkeepsie, USA

2007 - Time of the Writer Festival Participant, Durban, South Africa

2008 - Zimbabwe Institute of Management Award - National Contribution Category

2008 - National Arts Merits Award for Service to the Arts

2009 - founds the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA) Trust

2009 - Appointed mentor, Maisha Film Laboratory, Nairobi

2009 - full-length feature I WANT A WEDDING DRESS, one of a handful of African films selected for the Intern. Public Television Conference (INPUT), Warsaw

I WANT A WEDDING DRESS Trailer

2010- Master of Arts, Honorary Degree, Women's University in Africa

2010-2012 Board member, National Arts Council of

Zimbabwe 2011- Guest Lecturer, Du Bois Institute, Harvard University 2011- Steering Committee member, National Film Forum of

Zimbabwe

2012- Grand jury member Durban Int. Film Festival

2012- Winner

Spar Mother of the Year,

Arts and Culture Division 2013- Main Jury member

Luxor African Film Festival

2013- Writer in Residence,

School of Writing Arts,

Northwestern University,

Chicago

2014 - Launches ICAPA Publishing with short story collection A FAMILY PORTRAIT from the “Breaking the Silence” project of ICAPA Trust

2015 - Grand jury member, FESPACO Burkina Faso

BREAKING THE SILENCE Weblink