Ayoka Chenzira, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ayoka Chenzira

American filmmaker

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1953

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: film director, film producer, feminist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Ayoka ("Ayo") Chenzira (born 1953) is an independent African-American producer, director, animator, writer, and experimental film and transmedia storyteller.
She is the first African American woman animator and one of a handful of black experimental filmmakers working since the late 1970s.
She has earned international acclaim for her experimental, documentary, animation, and cross-genre productions.
Her work, as well as her efforts as one of the first African American woman film educator, have led some in the press to describe her as a media activist for social justice and challenging representations of African American stereotypes in the mainstream media.Chenzira is most well known for her 35mm feature films Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People (1984) and Alma’s Rainbow (1993).
Many of her recent works as a transmedia storyteller play with the increasingly digital world through art that combines material objects with digital environments, including Chenzira and her daughter HaJ's collaboration HERadventure (2013).