{"id":1599,"date":"2021-11-15T20:16:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/?page_id=1599"},"modified":"2021-11-15T20:16:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T20:16:11","slug":"nothing-left-by-itayi-chitauro-junior","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/nothing-left-by-itayi-chitauro-junior\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Left by Itayi Chitauro Junior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Itayi Chitauro Junior | Zimbabwe | 2:53 | Short Film <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Status: <strong>Official Selection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing Left is an experimental student short film that examines the grim effects of the Coronavirus in a Zimbabwean high density<br>semi-rural home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Director Biography &#8211;\u00a0Itayi Chitauro Junior<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/ff-storage-p01\/press_kits\/headshots\/001\/873\/765\/original\/640f3be7f5-headshot.jpg?1627232212\"><\/a><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Itayi Chitauro Junior is an unrepped emerging screenwriter-director who will graduate from CineArts University in the fall with a diploma in Filmmaking.<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He comes from a little mining town of Kwekwe, in the heart of Zimbabwe. He is also the ONLY person who will insist it&#8217;s a town instead of a city simply because it doesn&#8217;t have a zoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born and raised by a God-fearing mother of Scottish-Zimbabwean ancestry and a hard-working father of Zambian-Zimbabwean descent, he is obsessed with how one&#8217;s background helps an individual explore the meaning of one&#8217;s purpose in life. As someone who is figuring out how to grow, his writing, tends to combine &#8220;cultural background&#8221; and the questions : &#8220;how do I grow up?&#8221; and &#8220;is it even possible?&#8221; and &#8220;how do I conquer my fears?&#8221; and &#8220;do they ever go away, forever?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is one of those 1990&#8217;s Zimbabwean black kids who got a nickname due to their inability to pronounce a single English word. His sin was mispronouncing &#8216;junior&#8217; as &#8216;ju-mbi-ya&#8217;&#8230; To this day, there is an aunt and a couple of cousins who still call or text him just to remind him about his true &#8216;name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is known to occasionally claim that DENVER, THE LAST DINOSAUR; is the best tv show, animated or live action, ever created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides writing and directing films, he has made it one of his life&#8217;s missions to find out why people put salt on avocados.<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Itayi Chitauro Junior | Zimbabwe | 2:53 | Short Film Status: Official Selection Nothing Left is an experimental student short film that examines the grim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1599","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1599\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansmartphonefilmfest.com\/African-Smartphone-International-Film-Festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}