Sonya Mwambu is an experimental filmmaker and editor based in Toronto. Born in Kampala, they grew up in Canada and their work centres on the intersections of their identities through the exploration of race, gender, language and the connections they find through the experimentations of analogue film and digital technologies. Their films have screened at Nuit Blanche Toronto, the8fest, McMaster Museum of Art, Toronto Queer Film Festival, Mono No Aware Cinema Arts Festival and the Slamdance Film Festival. Their work has also been published in qumra journal and The Archive of Forgetfulness supported by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg. Their last project was an interactive installation, ‘mountains never meet, but people do’, completed as part of a residency at Charles Street Video. Mwambu holds a BFA in Film Production from York University and is pursuing an MFA in Film.
