Walt Mzengi Corey
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Walt Mzengi Corey

Hunter Foundation Scholar

Walt Mzengi Corey is a Tanzanian-born writer, director, and cinematographer based between Dar es Salaam and New York City and is awarded the Hunter Foundation Scholarship.

In 2022, he was selected as one of six winning filmmakers in the “African Folktales, Reimagined” competition by Netflix and UNESCO, which led to the creation of Katope (2023), premiering at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. He has written and directed films that have screened at festivals such as the BlackStar Film Festival (Gulf, 2019) and the Zanzibar International Film Festival (Timela, 2021; Katope, 2023), where Katope won the Ousmane Sembène Award. In 2024, Walt was invited to speak on a panel in the Economic and Social Council Chamber at the United Nations headquarters in New York during World KiSwahili Day, where he represented Tanzania’s film community. He continues to pursue the production of stories that explore the more delicate and often unspoken truths of humanity and society.