Walt Mzengi Corey is a Tanzanian-born writer, director, and cinematographer based between Dar es Salaam and New York City.
In 2022, he was selected as one of six winning filmmakers in the “African Folktales, Reimagined” competition by Netflix and UNESCO, leading to the creation of Katope (2023), which had its world premiere at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. In 2024, Walt was invited to participate on a panel for World KiSwahili Day in the ECOSOC Chamber at the UN headquarters in New York, where he represented Tanzania’s film community as a speaker. He has written and directed films that have been selected for festivals such as BlackStar Film Festival with Gulf (2019), and Zanzibar International Film Festival with Timela (2021) and Katope (2023), which won the prestigious Ousmane Sembène Award.
Currently, he is an MFA Candidate in Film at NYU as a recipient of the Ang Lee Grad scholarship. He continues to pursue the production of stories that explore the more delicate and often unspoken truths of humanity and society.