Dylan Valley
BWDW Creative Advisor
Dylan Valley is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and educator. He is currently Lecturer at the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town and a PhD student in media studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In 2013 he received a Pulitzer Fellowship from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, where he received his Masters in Specialised Journalism. At USC he completed his thesis documentary on the ground-breaking web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae. In January 2020, his virtual reality documentary Azibuye - The Occupation premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in the New Frontiers Category. His PhD research explores how the internet is shaping new methods of filmmaking on the African continent, and in the diaspora. He will serve as competition advisor.