The Medallion
Documentary
A single piece of jewellery holds the story of generations. Ruth was barely a teenager when her mother passed down a Medallion etched with the golden portrait of Nefertiti. Together, they go back to Ethiopia and explore her mother’s story as a survivor of the Red Terror genocide. Amidst a new civil war, the two revisit a country bursting with history and culture.
Ruth Hunduma is an Ethiopian-Australian writer, director, photographer, actor and poet. She is the recipient of the John Hay Lobban Prize in English Literature from Birkbeck, University of London and has been featured in publications such as Dazed and Perfect Magazine. Ruth won the 2022 Roundhouse Film Fund as well as the 2022 BFI Short Documentary fund, to which she has now released two films. Her debut narrative film, A BAND APART, premiered at the London Independent Film Festival and won Best Short Film (Directors UK Award). Her debut documentary, THE MEDALLION, has just wrapped and will be debuting on the festival circuit this summer.
As a writer and director, Ruth was shortlisted and accepted into the 2021 Guy Ritchie Creative Access mentorship program and was selected to join the Independent Film Trust’s Catalyst program in 2022 for the top emerging talent in London. Ruth’s script, WASTEMAN, was shortlisted for Centre Frame’s Get It Made Scheme and is currently in development. Ruth also wrote a novel which won The Literary Consultancy’s Free Reads Scheme. She is currently editing the novel.