Born in Zimbabwe, a country where the path of the artist is not paved in gold, Kudzai King spent his youth devouring Vogue, GQ, and binge-watching film, and television, and researching works that inspired some of his favorite photographers, directors and writers. Moved by icons like Quentin Tarantino, Annie Leibovitz, Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovsky, he packed his dreams (and a lot of naivety) and found himself in America.
Fast forward, and he has managed to make a name for myself by photographing and for some creative directing for brands like Helmut Lang, Theory, and landing covers and editorials on Vogue Germany and Elle Ukraine and the likes. Despite it all, he is always reminded, he's just an African boy with a dream. Setting aside a hard heartbreaking start and not knowing a single soul in America, not family nor friends as an immigrant, he has held on to these adolescent dreams and seen them through one way or the other.
Then came a plot twist: He ventured into directing and screenwriting, cutting his teeth as a first assistant director/second-unit director on "Cook Off," Zimbabwe's first film acquired by Netflix which inspired a chain of events to "The Hitman's Dalliance", his first directorial and writing debut.
The rest is history unfolding.
