Nyembezi’s work often explores the territory where global narratives meet local African reality.
About
Nyembezi is a filmmaker and media interrogator working across documentary, fiction and video art. Formerly an advertising art director, she moved into independent storytelling after earning an Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Witwatersrand and completing a filmmaker programme at the National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa. She first wrote and directed ‘On Isibindi Street’, a 24-minute drama film exploring the tension between legal and cultural expectations which premiered on SABC1, and later aired on Amazon Prime. She is a 2026 fellow of the Solutions Storytelling Project via the Video Consortium where she is directing a character-led documentary. ‘The March of Hollowmen’, her most recent work, is a short archive-driven creative documentary which confronts how African soldiers are framed in Word War narratives. As a global finalist of the Reuters Screenocean Make Film History Challenge, it can be watched right now via Reuters or Sheffield DocFest websites.
