Anisia Uzeyman

Anisziya Uwizeyimana (born February 1975 at Gihindamuyaga in Mbazi, Rwanda) is a Rwandan actress and playwright. She is most noted as codirector with Saul Williams of the 2021 film Neptune Frost.

Quotes

• This is a film we made very independently by ourselves and to be able to see it travel like this and be seen, has been beautiful.
  • Anisia Uzeyman said that, It has been great to see the industry embracing this film (The Africa Report,18 March 2022)
• Young people worldwide are demanding the same things that we talk about in the film, and these are universal concerns, but we don’t always take into account that those discussions are also happening in places like Rwanda or Burundi. I wondered, what would it be like to tell the story of these deliberations from the inside instead of the outside.
  • how do we propose our take on these issues instead of being told what the take is, said Anisia Uzeyman (The Africa Report,18 March 2022)
• It is a very interesting thing for every immigrant, that question of where your heart is and what is linking you to a place, especially one that isn’t the easiest of places to exist in.
  • Anisia Uzeyman said, her relationship with the country is often complicated given its history, (The Africa Report,18 March 2022)
• It comes from a desire to speak from Rwanda, for Rwanda and also for the world so that everybody is able to identify themselves in this part of the world that you are not usually invited to enter. On some level, we are all the same.
  • Neptune Frost is profoundly rooted, said Anisia Uzeyman (The Africa Report,18 March 2022)
• I wanted to secure a certain quality and technique because it’s a lot of science and a lot of the art to put together an image.
  • Anisia Uzeyman said that, I tried to see how it was possible for those two things to meet. (The Moveable Fest, June 2, 2022)
• Cecile Kayiregawa, who plays [the elder nun], is a renowned singer in Rwanda and for anyone who knows that place, [what] it was like to have her, to be able to work with her and to capture her in this film — she’s really revered, it was like meeting a queen.
  • Anisia Uzeyman said that, when we got the possibility to get in touch with her. (The Moveable Fest, June 2, 2022)