FAMBUL | Hawanatu Bangura

Hawanatu Bangura

From Sierra Leone

TV & Film Production

In Sydney, Australia

About Hawanatu Bangura

Hawanatu Bangura is an Afro-Australian award-winning director, writer and producer. She was part of the prestigious Screen Producers Australia: One to Watch program in 2017. Born in Sierra Leone, she migrated to Australia in 2002 and as a teenager discovered her interest in filmmaking when she was involved in a youth film project. She took the creative lead to make a short film and realised her passion for storytelling, creativity, and expression could be best channeled through the medium of film. Hawanatu relentlessly pursued this passion, attending her first filmmaking workshop and shortly after wrote and directed her first short narrative film about the experience of a person from an African background challenges and triumphs of settling in Australia.

Since then, Hawanatu has developed an impeccable eye for storytelling and honed her filmmaking craft. She has written, produced and directed over 9 short films in various genres including dance, experimental, drama, documentary and animation.