Walt is a Tanzanian born writer, director, and cinematographer based  between Dar es Salaam and New York City. He has worked on several  award-winning films and has written and directed films that have been  selected at festivals such as Black Star Film Festival, Monmouth, and  Zanzibar International Film Festival. In 2022, Walt was selected as one of six winning filmmakers of the “African Folktales, Reimagined”  competition by Netflix and UNESCO, inciting the inception of Katope  (2023). Currently, he is a Film MFA Candidate at NYU, where he  continues to pursue the production of stories that hold the more delicate  and often unspoken truths of humanity, and society.