Natasha Ngaiza
Natasha Ngaiza is a Tanzanian-American screenwriter, filmmaker and film professor. Her films focus on complicated women and mothers of the African Diaspora.
Her short films have screened at a number of acclaimed film festivals and venues including the Palms Spring International Short Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, the Huffington Post and Smithsonian Museum’s Art-Lab Film Forum.
Her screenplay “A Mother” was the recipient of ScreenCraft’s competitive Fall Film Fund in 2018 and won Best Short Film at Washington D.C.’s 2020 International Film Festival. It was picked up by Omeleto, the largest online platform for Oscar-qualifying short films.
Natasha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College in Vermont, where she is currently raising three daughters with her husband & fellow filmmaker-colleague, David Miranda Hardy.
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Short Film
5 Afternoons
Once a week, two black women are forced to overcome class and generational prejudices for a chance of friendship and self healing.
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short film
a creation story
To ease her daughter’s growing boredom, a mother begins a magical, mythical story about the origins of their hair while she carefully braids and oils her daughters tresses.
A Creation Story is about family and history. It is a celebration of mothers and daughters, community and tradition.
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short film
blackout
A sudden power outage leads to an impromptu shadow performance that inspires an African immigrant to revisit the past and confront her marriage.
This film was born out of the experiences of my mother, my aunts and my grandmothers: immigrant women who have spent decades making homes away from home; passing down memories of cultures, histories and language to their children.
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short film
a mother
As a town copes with the disappearance of a little girl, a mother of two must come to terms with her own decision to abort an unexpected pregnancy.
