Misha Maseka (b. Manzini, 1992) is an award-winning filmmaker, artist and researcher. As a Zambian growing up in South Africa and several other countries in her teens set the foundation for her interest in Pan-Africanism and cultural fragmentation. Starting her career in opera and theatre, studying under Dr Janet Youngdahl at the University of Lethbridge led her to perform across Canada, the United States and Germany (Calgary Philharmonic, Theatre Calgary, Square One Media, Lyric Studio Weimar, Werklund Centre, Banff Centre). This heavily influences her use of sound and spectacle in her ultimate study of the mundane, intimacy, heritage and history in her work. Notably seen in: award-winning “Ebony”, a soundless documentary on African American contemporary Deaf theatre artist, Ebony Gooden; short film “Not That Deep”, a poetic narrative on grief and memory, winner of two Berlin Short Film Festival awards and; dance film “Sweeter Blue”.

Founding her project-based production collective, Village Girls, expanded the work to immersive technologies across sound, stage and screen. This solidified during her master’s degree at the Royal College of Art, where she focussed on spatial sound, digital performance and immersive cinema exhibiting a large-scale projection installation work in a series titled “Have You Seen My Friends?”, which later was a Lol Sargaent Lenz Prize finalist. Her work has been shown at Frameless London, Somerset House, Oxford University, Contemporary Calgary, SOAS University, The Africa Centre London, Villa Romana Cultural Institut Florence and more.

When not creating, she continues research in the evolution and preservation of language and culture in the Lobito Corridor (Angola, Zambia and Congo).