Zenzele Ojore is a writer/director and interdisciplinary artist. While studying photography and film at the Rhode Island School of Design (2018), she traveled to Chile with Adobe to capture a story on the melting glaciers of Patagonia, and received a fellowship to work on a photo series in the Southwest section of Uganda titled “The Buhoma Side of Bwindi”. Zenzele screened her first short film at the 2013 SXSW film festival in Austin; raised in Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia her work is inspired by the eccentric spirit of the American South.

Most recently, Zenzele was selected as the 2019 Sundance Horizon Award winner for her short film The South is My Sister’s Skin. Her film premiered during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City.

Winning Project: The South Is My Sister’s Skin