Culturally disorganized Amirah Tajdin is an artist and filmmaker who considers her ongoing romance with crazy cities and her mixed lineage as influences for most of her films, photography and general creative process. She graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography) in South Africa, was born and brought up in Nairobi, spent her teenage years in Dubai and currently considers everywhere and nowhere home. In addition to this, she forms one half of the Africa-based indie production company, SEVEN THIRTY Films, alongside her sister Wafa Tajdin (producer).
(november 2014)
