Feature documentary
The River That Wept
Zimbabwean sacred water cosmologies in conversation with Indigenous water protector movements in Alberta.
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Film · Media · Music · Edmonton, Treaty 6 Territory
Stories carried across the world, told by the people who carry them.
Mixedblood Media Productions is an Edmonton arts and culture company producing documentary film, media and music rooted in Zimbabwean cultural practice and the African diaspora in Canada.
Teaser: Keeping It Alive: The Road Back to Song
Feature documentary · In development
Keeping It Alive
The Road Back to Song
After more than twenty years carrying Shona mbira music through Canada, Kurai Mubaiwa is drawn back to the stage by a chamber ensemble that sets his songs beside a string quartet. Their 2027 tour takes him home to Zimbabwe: HIFA, Theatre in the Park, the Zimbabwe College of Music and Victoria Falls.
Directed and produced by Clayton Pasi Gunguwo
Current work
Film, series, touring and music projects in development and production.
Web series
Okuche
A warm comedy-drama about a Zimbabwean newcomer in an Alberta oil boomtown, developed with Edmonton Screen.
Tour management · 2027
Afrimba ZimSalsa
A six-piece band joining salsa and Zimbabwean music, managed and toured by Mixedblood Media.
Vinyl release
Feso — Vanazukuru
Zimbabwean dance rhythms, recorded in 2005, prepared for its first release on vinyl.
What we do
Film and documentary
Development, production and post for feature documentaries, series and short films.
Music production
Recording, releases and live multitrack capture for artists and ensembles.
Tour and artist management
Planning, hosting and managing tours between Canada and Zimbabwe, and across Canada.
Arts and culture management
Project design, grant writing and partnerships for cultural organizations and artists.
Founder and Executive Director
Clayton Pasi Gunguwo
Clayton Pasi Gunguwo is a director, producer, actor and musician with more than twenty years of work in film, theatre and music across Canada, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Israel, the United States and Europe. He trained in Zimbabwe as an apprentice to actor and casting director Simon Shumba, gaining early on-set experience on major international productions filmed there, including Cry Freedom (1987), A Dry White Season (1989), Flame (1996) and Kongo (1997). He went on to train at Amakhosi Theatre, earned a certificate in producing, directing and arts management in 1996, and completed a Digital Film Production Diploma at Langara College in Vancouver in 2006.
On screen, he played the lead in Zimbabwe's first condom commercials, for Protector Plus, and a supporting role in Raoul Peck's feature Lumumba (2000). Behind the camera, he wrote, directed and produced the short film Extending Sweetness (2013), and produced and co-directed Muti Usina Zita: A Tree with No Name (2013) for Education Without Borders. In theatre, he directed and produced Super Patriots and Morons (2010) at the University of British Columbia, produced by Amnesty International, acted in Train Driver (2017), and directed The Respectful Prostitute (2024).
His work centres African storytelling, migration, identity and resilience. He is the founder of Izwi Lethu Arts Society, Mixedblood Media's sister nonprofit for music education and community arts.
Acting reel
Selected credits
Directing
The River That Wept (feature documentary, in development)
Extending Sweetness (short, 2013, writer, director and producer)
Muti Usina Zita: A Tree with No Name (2013, writer-director)
Super Patriots and Morons (2010, theatre, University of British Columbia; director and producer)
Producing
Super Patriots and Morons (2010, theatre, co-production with Amnesty International)
Extending Sweetness (short, 2013)
Acting
Train Driver (2017, theatre, Simon; dir. Adam Henderson)
Lumumba (2000, feature film, dir. Raoul Peck, supporting role)
Protector Plus (TV commercials, lead role; Zimbabwe's first condom commercials)
Writing
Muti Usina Zita: A Tree with No Name (2013)
Extending Sweetness (short, 2013)
Theatre
On stage
Clayton Pasi Gunguwo as Simon, the gravedigger, in Athol Fugard's Train Driver (2017). Directed by Adam Henderson, Jericho Arts Centre, Vancouver.
