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Released
2012 · FILM

Yellow Fever

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Written by
Runtime
7 min
AnimationDocumentary

Synopsis

What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental techniques to create a visually striking and psychologically insightful exploration of the insidious impact of Western beauty standards and media-created ideals on African women’s perceptions of themselves. From hair-straightening to skin-lightening, *Yellow Fever* unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable, literally, in their own skin.

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How many hands made this film

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Principal cast & crew: 8

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ng Endo MukiiShot by Alex MacnaughtonScored by Kadialy Kouyate

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