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Loved Out

a Romance, Comedy Film

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IN CINEMAS 26 SEPTEMBER 2025

What do you get when you cross a toxic frenemy, a high-stakes cooking competition, and a church heist? A laugh-out-loud, cry-in-your-cocktail, fiercely female-led South African film that's about to flip the local cinema scene on its head.

 

Get ready for LOVED OUT, the genre-busting new film written, directed, and produced by Zimbabwean-South African creative powerhouse Tendayi Nyeke. This vibrant, fearless, and fabulously unfiltered dramedy premieres on 18 September, followed by a national rollout in South Africa on 26 September 2025 at NuMetro, Ster-Kinekor, and CineCentre theatres, and its Zambia and Zimbabwe release on 28 November 2025.

Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire 
Hulu & Disney+

Annie Award-winning Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire is an action-packed animated sci-fi anthology that presents ten futuristic visions from Africa, inspired by the continent’s diverse histories and cultures

Tenye is a creative agency headed by Tendayi Nyeke, a Children's Emmy-nominated and Annie Award-winning producer. Tendayi herself is also a writer, director, and songwriter who loves using all of these tools in her storytelling.

Our mission is to foster a vibrant and dynamic creative ecosystem where people from diverse backgrounds can come together to collaborate, share ideas, and create exceptional projects.

We believe that by blending cultures and experiences, we can create truly unique and remarkable work. We aim to empower everyone to express their vision and produce something extraordinary. Join us and be part of our creative journey.

About Tendayi

After an incredible decade in live-action, where she wrote and produced award-winning multi-genre projects that captured global attention, Tendayi Nyeke made an exciting leap into the world of animation!

 

As a development at the renowned Triggerfish Animation Studios, she’s been at the helm of creating a vibrant array of shorts, series, and feature films for major global platforms. One of her proudest achievements is serving as supervising producer for Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire. This groundbreaking pan-African animated sci-fi anthology premiered on Disney+ in 2023, where over 15 talented directors bring their visionary short films to life.

 

Her feature film, Tribe, recently won the Animation Production Days Award at the Oscar Qualifying Film Festival, the Durban Film Mart (2025).

 

This follows a successful pitch at the iconic Annecy Animation Festival, where the film gained prestigious recognition as part of the official MIFA 2022 selection and was featured by Cartoon Brew as "one of the top 5 films in development to watch!"

 

Currently, Tendayi is developing an animated feature film at a global streamer.  Her live action romantic-comedy feature "Loved Out" which she wrote, directed and produced, releases in South African, Zimbabwean and Zambian cinemas in 2025 ahead of a world wide digital release.

 

With a deep passion for the intersection of art and business, Tendayi holds an MBA in Music and Creative Industries from Henley Business School. Her dream? To amplify voices around the globe, celebrating the joy and beauty that unite us all!

Tendayi Nyeke Head Shot

Live Action

Burns and Song - Pilot (2024)

Writer - Director - Producer

Loved Out: Feature (2025)

Writer - Director - Producer

Working Wives: Webseries (2021)

Executive Producer

End Game (2014)

Post Production Producer

Animation

Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire (2023)

Executive Producer

Indlela Yokuphila: Soul's Journey (2023) Consultant "This beautiful film contributes to expanding ways to articulate an aspect of what contributes to our identity. Indlela Yokuphila is a gorgeous and thoughtful celebration of specific African spiritual values and their intersection with the wider world. Even though I am from a different ethnic group, as an African woman and filmmaker who has had history written for me, this film touched me because it invites the world to see me the way I see myself - as a person that comes from a rich, bedautiful heritage that everyone can learn from." - Tendayi

Music

RAIN: Singer/Songwriter

IN MY HEAD: Songwriter

QUIET: Singer/Songwriter

HOUSE OF STONE: Writer

I'M IN LOVE: Singer/Songwriter

Awards & Nominations

Burns and Song Poster

Children's Emmy nominee, Annie Award winner for Best Limited Series, and

Kidscreen Award for Best Tween/Teen Series

Kizazi Moto Generation Fire

2024

South African Film and Television Awards, SAFTAs

Best Youth Show, “Mikasi Sukasi”, 2019

Role: Commissioning Editor

​Best Post Production, “End Game”, 2015
Role: Post-Production Producer


Best Reality Show, “Khumbul’ekhaya”
Role: Commissioning Editor


 

Best Comedy and Best Comedy Post Production, “Bantu Hour”, 2017 and 2019 (nominee) 

Role: Commissioning Editor

Best Entertainment Show, “The Real Goboza” 
Role: Commissioning Editor

Input TV Germany ,“It Takes A Village”,(episode 2), nominated for selection and showcase, 2020,

Zimbabwe Achiever Awards,  Media Practitioner of the Year, 2019(nominee)

Australian Queensland New Filmmaker’s Award for Documentary Production, 2006

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