Santilla Chingaipe

Santilla Chingaipe is an Australian filmmaker, historian and writer whose multidisciplinary work interrogates mobility, memory, erasure and identity, and she spent nearly a decade reporting for SBS World News before publishing her first book, Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia, shortlisted for The Stella Prize and long-listed for the Cundill History Prize, which inspired her award-winning documentary Our African Roots, released in 2021 and marking the first time an African-Australian host interrogated the nation's colonial history on Australian television. Her other screen credits include Third Culture Kids, The Dancer and Black As Me, and she is currently developing her directorial debut feature Umuzimu (Spirit), alongside founding Behind The Screens and hosting the events First Chapter and No Skips: A Listening Party.

Santilla Chingaipe adalah seorang sutradara, sejarawan, dan penulis asal Australia yang karya-karyanya yang multidisipliner mengangkat tema mobilitas, memori, penghapusan sejarah, dan identitas, dan ia menghabiskan hampir satu dekade sebagai jurnalis untuk SBS World News sebelum menerbitkan buku pertamanya, Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia, yang masuk daftar pendek The Stella Prize dan daftar panjang Cundill History Prize, yang kemudian menginspirasi film dokumenternya yang meraih banyak penghargaan, Our African Roots, dirilis pada 2021 dan menjadi kali pertama seorang pembawa acara keturunan Afrika-Australia mengangkat sejarah kolonial negara tersebut di televisi Australia. Karya layar lainnya termasuk Third Culture Kids, The Dancer, dan Black As Me, dan saat ini ia tengah menggarap debut film panjangnya sebagai sutradara, Umuzimu (Spirit), selain mendirikan Behind The Screens dan menjadi pembawa acara First Chapter dan No Skips: A Listening Party.