Runyararo Mapfumo

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Runyararo Mapfumo is a British [1] television director, film director, writer, and producer. She is known for her work on the critically acclaimed Netflix television series Sex Education . [2] [3]

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Background

In 2013, Mapfumo graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a first class honours degree in film and visual effects. [4]

Career

Mapfumo has received funding from the British Film Institute, the BBC, and Google Arts. [5] [6] She has featured in the BFI London Film Festival. Her third short, Masterpiece, was shown at the 2020 We Are One: A Global Film Festival. In 2021, she was listed as number 5 in TechRound's "Top 50 BAME Entrepreneurs Under 50". [7]

Filmography

Director [8] [9]

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