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 founde...
