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Actress, Director, Playwright
About Anisia Uzeyman
Anisziya Uwizeyimana (born February 1975 at Gihindamuyaga in Mbazi, Rwanda) is a Rwandan actress and playwright. She is most noted as codirector with Saul Williams of the 2021 film Neptune Frost.
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βThis is a film we made very independently by ourselves and to be able to see it travel like this and be seen, has been beautiful.β
βIt is a very interesting thing for every immigrant, that question of where your heart is and what is linking you to a place, especially one that isnβt the easiest of places to exist in.β
βIt comes from a desire to speak from Rwanda, for Rwanda and also for the world so that everybody is able to identify themselves in this part of the world that you are not usually invited to enter. On some level, we are all the same.β
βCecile Kayiregawa, who plays [the elder nun], is a renowned singer in Rwanda and for anyone who knows that place, [what] it was like to have her, to be able to work with her and to capture her in this film β sheβs really revered, it was like meeting a queen.β
βYoung people worldwide are demanding the same things that we talk about in the film, and these are universal concerns, but we donβt always take into account that those discussions are also happening in places like Rwanda or Burundi. I wondered, what would it be like to tell the story of these deliberations from the inside instead of the outside.β
About Anisia Uzeyman
Anisziya Uwizeyimana (born February 1975 at Gihindamuyaga in Mbazi, Rwanda) is a Rwandan actress and playwright. She is most noted as codirector with Saul Williams of the 2021 film Neptune Frost.