Ruth Hunduma, Ethiopie, 2023
Ruth was a teenager when her mother entrusted her with a medallion engraved with a golden portrait of Nefertiti. This piece of jewelry symbolizes her mother’s unimaginable ordeal: captured by Mengistu Haile Mariam’s communist military regime during the Red Terror genocide in Ethiopia. The story follows her earliest memories of this period and how she came into possession of the medallion during her escape. The medallion represents her freedom and was passed down to Ruth to keep their family’s and country’s story alive.
BIOFILMOGRAPHY :
Ruth Hunduma is an Ethiopian- Australian writer, director, photographer, actor and poet. She is the recipient of the John Hay Lobban prize in English Literature from Birkbeck, University of London and has been featured in publications such as Dazed and Perfect Magazine. Ruth won the 2022 Film Fund as well as the 2022 BFI short documentary fund, to which she has now released two films. Her debut narrative film A BAND APART, premiered at the London Independent Film Festival and won Best Short Film (Directors UK Award). Writer, Ruth was shortlisted and accepted into the 2021 Guy Ritchie Creative Access mentorship program, and was selected to join the Independent Film Trust’s Catalyst program in 2022, for the top emerging talent in London. Ruth’s script WASTEMAN, was shortlisted for Centre Frame’s Get It Made Scheme, and is currently in development. Ruth also wrote a novel which won The Literary Consultancy’s Free Reads Scheme, she is currently editing the novel.
Ruth is based in London.