Passionate about where story and business meet, Kudi is a Zimbabwean-born multi-award (SAFTA, Promax, Loeries, and Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice), winning executive producer and director. She has 11 years of experience in scripted content and factual formats in television and features. She was the editorial lead and an executive producer at Paramount Africa (2018 to 2022). Kudi has produced content for AVOD, SVOD, free-to-air, and PAY TV platforms such as Netflix, eTV, Showmax, and YouTube, working across Africa in Johannesburg, Kenya, and Lagos.
Kudi was the 2021 Realness Netflix Episodic Lab Finalist. Kudi is also a screenwriter with two feature scripts shortlisted for the 2018 & 2022 Sundance Feature Film Writer's Lab and the Durban FilmMart Institute 2023 Access Programme.
A gifted voice-over actor, Kudi’s voice has featured in regional and global campaigns for Discovery Bank, Avon, BBC, Netflix, Mercedes Benz, and Audi, lending her voice to animation and video game characters for Disney+'s first African animated series Kizazi Moto. Kudi is a trained theatre actress who studied at UCT Hiddingh Campus. Her notable acting achievements include a 2006 African Film Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in ‘Tanyaradzwa’ and National Arts Merit Award (Zimbabwe) Best Actress Award for ‘Love at Crossroads’. She is also a freelance writer, having written for Women24, Colors Magazine Italy, and ELLE Decoration.
Kudi is passionate about creative storytelling for an African audience, with an understanding of content strategy for a studio business and content production. Through her production company, Lincoln Green Media, Kudi is executive producing her first scripted series, for a global streamer - a show she created and co-head wrote. Kudi will direct her first short film ‘Remembrance’ which will be executive produced by the award-winning team at Yellow Bone Entertainment as part of the 2023 NFVF Female Filmmaker’s Slate. Kudi is working on her third feature script, a comedy-drama titled ‘Death and Its Friends’ which has been selected to participate in the 2023 Realness Creative Producer Indaba. Kudi is an Executive Committee Member for the IPO South Africa (Independent Producer’s Organisation).
Kudi is represented by Torchwood Literary and Owen S. Management. IMDB link here.