Uzo Ngwu is a Nigerian-American multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses film, animation, illustration, and music. She recently graduated from Harvard University in 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in Art, Film and Visual Studies. Alongside her Harvard classes, she’s taken vocal performance and production classes at Berklee College of Music as part of the Harvard-Berklee dual-degree program. She spent her final year abroad in Paris, France where she studied fine art and film art at Paris College of Art. Uzo was a participant of the Fall 2023 Women in Animation mentorship circle mentored by Hillary Powell, a mentee of the inaugural Beyond the Screen program in collaboration with A24 and Made in Her Image, and a member of the inaugural class of Peter Roth interns at the Paley Center for Media. She is currently directing and producing an animated short film, Mmanwu, as a recipient of the Harvardwood Artist Launch Fellowship under the mentorship of Mark Osborne. Uzo recently founded ZOMA, an animation studio and production company committed to centering culturally specific storytelling. Through her work, Uzo is interested in championing underrepresented voices and wielding different creative mediums to tell vibrant, compelling stories.
