Gertrude Malizeni is a creative filmmaker, multidisciplinary visual artist, and curator whose practice centers storytelling as a form of documenting and archiving the lived histories of women. She primarily uses film, installations, painting, and photography. Her work listens closely to women laboring in informal spaces, bringing into view forms of care, endurance, and sustenance that hold communities together. Often maternal in nature, this labor feeds, moves, and nurtures everyday life, yet remains unseen, unvalued, and systematically ignored. By placing these women at the center, her work resists erasure, challenges patriarchal economies of visibility, and insists on recognition for lives and labor that have long been normalized into silence. Her practice was primarily built at Nafasi Academy, where she participated in the Contemporary Visual Arts Program in 2019 and later joined Ajabu Ajabu Audiovisual House(AA) as a founding member. Here, her interest in storytelling from an African perspective developed as AA focuses on the African filmmaking, presentation, and preservation. In 2021, she was part of the UANI Residency, which was a research project on traditional ways of knowledge sharing between women of different generations, traditional ways of healing, culinary, and womanhood. This residency shaped most of her current ways as it built interest for her to observe deeply the informal spaces existing in her communities, which gave birth to her ongoing project Mama Mishe - a project exploring women's informal labour, the weight these works carry, and the society's view on the work. 2021 - 2024, she actively engaged in producing her films and collaborating with others - the films produced include: Apostles of Cinema, Kwenye uwepo wa Mwanamke, Mama Mishe, Nuru, Nzowa, and many others. In 2025, she participated in the TFMB Thought Leadership Mentorship Program as a mentor, sharing my creative knowledge with the younger generation. She also participated in the Uhenga project, Lelemama, which was exploring the early women who fought for freedom hand in hand with Nyerere and paved the way for the current generations of feminists. In this collective, Getrude brings in her creative practice as a contribution to the bigger picture of telling our African stories in our own lens as a way of reclaiming our voices and changing narratives for the coming generations.