Kudi Maradzika is a visionary Zimbabwean screenwriter, director, producer, and performer. Her storytelling has reached global audiences via Netflix, Showmax, Amazon Prime, MTV, and Comedy Central.

Her accolades include an Africa Movie Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Tanyaradzwa (2006), an AMVCA Award, a SAFTA win, Promax Global Awards (Gold and Silver), and multiple Loerie nominations and an International Emmy nomination as part of a producing team. She has acted in acclaimed shows on Netflix and Amazon, and is currently filming a role in a global fantasy franchise. As a voice artist, she featured in the Annie and International Emmy Award-winning animation Kizazi Moto.

Kudi is the founder of Lincoln Green Media, an award-winning company developing high-impact African IP across screen, print, and digital platforms. She is the creator and head writer of a forthcoming Netflix Original series (2026), with a second season already greenlit.

Her feature Njuzu was selected for Durban FilmMart Access (2023) and advanced in consideration for the 2022 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Her second feature, Death and Its Friends, was selected for the Locarno Open Doors Lab (2025) and received development support from South Africa’s NFVF. She has participated in elite international labs, including the Realness x Netflix Episodic Lab, Creative Producer Indaba, IFFR Rotterdam, and Atlas Workshops (Morocco). In 2025, she was awarded the Forty Under 40 Africa Award for innovation in storytelling.

Kudi is also the founder of UKO®, a digital platform in development to democratize African film education and distribution. UKO® was shortlisted for the Création Africa program funded by Institut Français. Her IP slate includes Artemis Elixa™, an Afro-futuristic comic and soon-to-be video game, and Blood & Tusk, an alternate history epic novel.

Casarotto Ramsay and Associates and OSM represent Kudi. IMDB link here.