Music by Prudence is a 2010 short documentary film directed by Roger Ross Williams.

It tells the story of the then 24-year-old Zimbabwean singer-songwriter Prudence Mabhena, and follows her transcendence from a world of hatred and superstition into one of music, love, and possibilities.

Music by Prudence tells a self-empowering story of one young woman's struggle who, together with her band, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds and, in her own voice, conveys to the world that "disability does not mean inability."

But Prudence and the seven young members of the band she has formed called Liyana, all disabled, have managed to overcome stereotypes and inspire the same people that once saw them as a curse.

However, when the film won the Academy Award, Burkett interrupted Williams during his acceptance speech, which news media likened to Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift's speech at the MTV Video Music Awards the year before.