Name: Seko Shamte

Birthday: October 29^th 1981

Kazi: Filmmaker, Director

Seko Shamte, a Tanzanian filmmaker, writer and director of various film works, who also owns a production company known as Alkemist Media, has been in the film industry for more than 20 years.

Ms Seko also was the director of the films such as “Mkwawa: Shujaa wa Mashujaa Hehe hero, Team Tanzania, Jikoni na Marion, a television cooking show, Home Coming and Mid Night.”

The 40-year-old filmmaker is no stranger to creating visual works of art. She has always admired journalists and filmmakers from a very young age to such an extent that she knew what she wanted to be one day – an artiste.

Not many Tanzanian films make it into the big screen, but Seko Shamte’s ‘Binti’ film, Swahili for young lady managed to secure a cinematic spotlight at home, abroad and now on global streaming platform, Netflix

Strong, resilient, persistent hardworking, Seko ni kati ya filmmakers na directors that we really look up to hasa katika kufanya mapinduzi makubwa hususan the creative industry. GO GIRL!!!