BIOGRAPHY

 

Julius Masimba Musodza was born in 1976, as independence and all it offered to an erstwhile disenfranchised Black majority dawned on the country now known as Zimbabwe. He was educated at Avondale Primary School, Harare, and St Mary Magdalene’s High School in Nyanga.

In addition to the school magazine, Musodza’s early work appeared in The New Generation, a youth newspaper published by Jamaica-born Ben Hanson.

Musodza enrolled at the now defunct Vision Valley Film Video & Television Institute, majoring in Screenwriting and Directing. He also honed his skills with Edgar Langeveldt’s Nexus Talent Agency, the African Script Development Fund, the Zimbabwe International Film Festival and the Raindance Institute in the United Kingdom. He holds a degree in Media Studies.

Although only recently coming to public attention as an author, Masimba has been a screenwriter of some merit, having sold his first screenplay in 2002. He is now working to put some of his own writing to screen as a producer/director.