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Iyabo Kwayana
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Iyabo Kwayana’s filmmaking career spans from serving as director of photography for fiction films, to director or co-cinematographer for award-winning documentaries, such as the Visions du Réel-premiered “Practice “ and the Locarno-premiered” Palenque” to directing and editing archival experimental films that leverage minstrel imagery and NASA footage to articulate personal trauma and catharsis. The streaming debut of her film “Practice“ premiered on Criterion in July of 2021 and her BlackStar film festival premiered short “By Water” screened at venues such as Sundance, BlackStar, HotDocs and won jury prizes at San Francisco international film festival, Humboldt film festival, Hot Springs d…
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NRAn unlikely hero's journey into his own memories becomes a vehicle for reconciliation and healing for himself and his sibling.
By Water
2023
NRStudents near the Shaolin temple engaged in a simple yet rigorous exercise of rehearsal.
Practice
2018
Old Man River continues Iyabo Kwayana’s exploration of lineage, memory and inheritance through an intimate portrait of her father, a 100-year-old political activist and nation builder from Guyana who helped found the country’s first multiethnic political party. The film sits beside him as he reflects on a lifetime shaped by political struggle, idealism, sacrifice and the contradictions within revolutionary movements.
Old Man River
2026
Behind the camera
NRAn unlikely hero's journey into his own memories becomes a vehicle for reconciliation and healing for himself and his sibling.
By Water
2023
NRAn unlikely hero's journey into his own memories becomes a vehicle for reconciliation and healing for himself and his sibling.
By Water
2023
NRStudents near the Shaolin temple engaged in a simple yet rigorous exercise of rehearsal.
Practice
2018
Old Man River continues Iyabo Kwayana’s exploration of lineage, memory and inheritance through an intimate portrait of her father, a 100-year-old political activist and nation builder from Guyana who helped found the country’s first multiethnic political party. The film sits beside him as he reflects on a lifetime shaped by political struggle, idealism, sacrifice and the contradictions within revolutionary movements.
Old Man River
2026