True Patriot
Between 1961 and 1989, in Apartheid South Africa,132 political prisoners were executed by hanging at Pretoria Central Gallows. Many were young – Solomon Mahlangu – executed in 1979, was 22 years old when hanged. All save one were black. John Harris – [no relation to the producer / director of this documentary] – hanged at […]
Awake
A married couple, whose relationship is eroding, is forced to confront those fractures when they realise that history may be repeating itself. But not in a way they could ever have anticipated.
1994 The Bloody Miracle
2014 marked the 20th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. It seems hard, though, to believe the ‘Mandela miracle’ nearly didn’t happen. What history forgets is that during the last year of Apartheid, South Africa was on the brink of catastrophe, with certain groups intent on derailing the first free elections. Now, […]
A Performance on Femininity
By definition femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviours, and roles generally associated with women and girls. Last year I was invited to a residency which facilitated an opportunity to make a film about Nara city life and it’s people from a lens of an outsider. Amongst the many amazing people I […]
Volle Bors (BARE)
Eva, a young poet in her 20’s, sits in a genetic counsellor’s office feeling overwhelmed by the possibility that she may have an extremely high risk of breast cancer due to her family history. She tests positive and is confronted with the idea of having a mastectomy. Removing her breasts while they are still healthy, […]
The Last Seed
The Last Seed focuses on broad themes relating to the state of food and agriculture in Africa in the twenty-first century. Placing the struggle for the control of seeds at the centre, it explains the processes that have led to this moment in human history and what it would take to interact with the planet […]
The Gooseberry Grandmother’s Daughter
In October 2020, Malungelo ’s world came crashing down. Her mother, a tough but big-hearted woman with a bellowing singing voice was murdered. She was shot 6 times as she enjoyed afternoon tea at her kitchen table. Malungelo’s son, 13-year-old Buyile witnessed the murder. As is customary, when a visitor arrives at a Zulu homestead, […]
The 16th Man
‘The 16th Man’ tells the emotional story of the end of apartheid in South Africa, the start of Nelson Mandela’s new government with its goal of racial unity, and how the South African rugby team’s victory in the 1995 Rugby World Cup brought a healing process to the country. The film highlights how Mandela used […]
Seconds
SECONDS follows the story of Seconds Khumalo, an ageing boxer from the East Rand of Johannesburg. The Van Tonder family, whose property he lives on, and for whom he boxes — begin to grow suspicious as years of unanswered questions and traumas start to surface. Seconds has always trained under Pa Van Tonder, working for […]
The Radical
THE RADICAL is an intimate portrait of the world’s first openly gay imam. Muhsin Hendricks was a fashion designer in South Africa, who struggled to reconcile his sexuality with his faith. He studied in Pakistan to become an imam—a religious leader—so that he could understand Islam more deeply. After deciding that he had to be […]
