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Rumbi Katedza is a freelance writer and award-winning filmmaker who has lived in the USA, Japan, Italy, Canada, the UK and Zimbabwe. She has written for numerous publications including The Zimbabwe Film Bulletin, The Financial Gazette, The Herald, Horizon, Fresh Vibes, The McGill Daily, Hype!, AV Specialist, Africa Film & TV and Vertigo Magazine. She was one of the winners of the Anglo-Platinum Short Story competition in 2008, and her short story ‘The Corpse’ was published in Illuminations in 2009. From 2004 to 2006, she was Festival Director of the Zimbabwe International Film Festival, she then spent a year at Goldsmiths College, London as Chevening Scholar She is currently director of Mai Jai Films, and recently launched her first feature film Playing Warriors. Rumbi was published in Women Writing Zimbabwe (2008).