Tendo Nagenda

Tendo Nagenda (born 1975) is an American film producer and former studio executive.

Career

Born in Los Angeles to a Ugandan father and a Belizean mother, Nagenda graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1997 with a double major in accounting and government. He worked at Deloitte for a year and a half before spending four months at the New York Film Academy.

Nagenda held positions at HBO, Good Universe, Warner Independent Pictures, and Plan B Entertainment before an eight-year stint at Disney. At Disney, he became executive vice president of production and oversaw the production of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, A Wrinkle in Time, Dumbo and Mulan.

In 2018, Nagenda was hired by Netflix to serve as Vice President of Original Films as part of Netflix’s move towards self-produced content. During this time he oversaw Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Hillbilly Elegy, The Harder They Fall, The Gray Man, and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

In August 2022, Nagenda departed Netflix. He founded his own production company, 10 by Ten Entertainment, with the stated aim of “creat[ing] culturally relevant, big-event entertainment, reframing on and centering underrepresented perspectives.”