---
name: "Sunu Gonera"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sunu-gonera"
fi1m_id: "sunu-gonera"
imdb_id: "nm1549343"
tmdb_id: 1037963
wikidata_id: "Q86522557"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T18:58:58.275653+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Sunu Gonera

## Identity

Sunu Gonera

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sunu-gonera
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sunu-gonera
- **IMDb ID:** nm1549343
- **TMDB ID:** 1037963
- **Wikidata ID:** Q86522557
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86522557, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1549343/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1037963

Director. Born in Zimbabwe.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86522557, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1549343/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1037963

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Little America*](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md) (82)

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## Biography

Sunu Gonera is a Zimbabwean director. He attended Falcon College in Zimbabwe on a sports scholarship and later the University of Cape Town, where he completed a degree in organisational psychology. After working as a banker, he entered the film industry as a runner and progressed to directing commercials.

His short film *Riding with Sugar* screened at Cannes in 2006. Gonera made his feature directorial debut with *Pride* (2007). He has directed episodes of television series including *Little America* (2020), *13 Reasons Why* (2017), *Raised by Wolves* (2020), *Snowfall* (2017) and *Class of '09* (2023), and the feature *Riding with Sugar* (2020).

*Sources: imdb.com, news.uct.ac.za, pindula.co.zw.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Little America* (2020), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Parish* (2024), series, Director, Teleplay
- *Class of '09* (2023), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *Riding with Sugar* (2020), Director, Writer
- *Raised by Wolves* (2020), series, Director
- *Little America* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md)
- *The Rook* (2019), series, Director
- *Snowfall* (2017), series, Director
- *13 Reasons Why* (2017), series, Director
- *Madam Secretary* (2014), series, Director
- *Inside Story* (2011), Screenplay
- *The Lion of Judah* (2011), Producer
- *Pride* (2007), Director
- *Riding with Sugar* (2006), Director, Writer
- *In My Country* (2004), as Lionel

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/sunu-gonera