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name: "Runyararo Mapfumo"
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# Runyararo Mapfumo

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director

## Biography

Runyararo Mapfumo is a British television and film director, writer and producer of Zimbabwean heritage. She graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 2013 with a first-class honours degree in film and visual effects.

She is known for directing the second block of episodes (4, 6, 7 and 8) of the third series of the Netflix series *Sex Education* (2021) and for directing three episodes of the Netflix series *KAOS* (2024). Mapfumo has also directed a number of short films, including several funded by the BFI, BBC and Google Arts, and has received a BAFTA nomination for Emerging Talent: Fiction (2022).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, unitedagents.co.uk, imdb.com, bafta.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sex Education* (2019), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-education.md)

## Also known for

- *KAOS* (2024), Director

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