A Lion’s Trail Winner of an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Cultural & Artistic Programming” and various festival awards, A Lion’s Trail has been broadcast
in more countries than any other South African film. It tells the
story of how Solomon Linda, an illiterate Zulu musician wrote Africa’s
most famous song, “Mbube”, how this became the inspiration for the
multi-million dollar pop classic “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, and how
Linda died with hardly any benefits from the success of the song.
It follows the efforts of journalist Rian Malan, folk singer Pete
Seeger and others in trying to redress the wrongs of the past. Traveling
into the musical worlds of South Africa, England and the US, A LION’S
TRAIL celebrates the song’s timeless power while revealing injustices
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Tsietsi My Hero (1 x 60’) Documentary, South Africa, 2006 “Tsietsi, My Hero” is the tragic life story of Tsietsi
Mashinini, the unsung hero of the ’76 Soweto student uprisings that
brought Soweto to a standstill and launched the final 18-year phase
that led to the end of apartheid. Courageous and articulate, Tsietsi
became a symbol of the black consciousness movement. As the apartheid
government’s most wanted man in 1976, he was forced into exile and
died under mysterious circumstances, never to harvest the fruits of
freedom in his homeland.
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Courting Justice (1 x 65’ / 1 x 52’) From tyranny to democracy. Fourteen years after the defeat of apartheid, South Africa’s fledgling democracy is acclaimed for its constitutional promise of comprehensive human rights and unprecedented judicial reform. But what is essential for transformation to succeed?
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Sea Point Days (1 x 90’) Documentary, South Africa, 2008, After his previous documentaries When the War Is Over (about two former fighters against apartheid) and The Mothers' House (about three generations of women in a township of Cape Town), South African director François Verster turns his focus to the Sea Point suburb of Cape Town. And more specifically to the promenade on the waterfront, punctuated by various public swimming pools, where all strata of society come together.
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Angola: Saudades from the one who loves you (1 x 60’) Documentary, South Africa, 2008,
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Affectionately Known as Alex (1 x 24’)
Documentary, South Africa, 2008, Cutline: A gripping insight into the frustrated reality of life in Alexander
Township, filmed in the months preceding the outbreak
of xenophobic violence in May 2008. ‘Affectionately known as Alex” is a verite snap-shot of life in Alex in the months leading up to the outbreak of “xenophobic” violence in May 2008, ending with a graphic description of the chaos and consequences of the tragic events which then spread like wildfire across the country . READ MORE... |
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The Mothers’ House (1 x 60’) Documentary, South Africa, 2006, Worldwide Distribution contact http://www.doc-co.com/ http://www.themothershouse.co.za/ Described as astonishingly
intimate, emotionally overwhelming and sometimes
shocking, THE MOTHERS’ HOUSE is a record of four
years in the life of Miché, a charming, precocious
yet troubled teenage girl growing into womanhood
in post-Apartheid South Africa. Living with her mother
and grandmother in Bonteheuwel, a “coloured” township
outside Cape Town, she has to face not only life
in a community troubled by gangsterism and drug abuse,
but also what it means to break the unbearable cycle
of emotional and physical violence imprisoning her
own family. READ MORE... |
Glimpse (1 x 22 minutes)
Experimental, South Africa/Italy, 2005
Images of South Africa, its nature, people and cities, without comment, edited
to an hypnotic score, GLIMPSE draws a unique portrait
of the people and landscape of South Africa at the
tail end of it’s first decade of freedom. Short and
long shots, slowed down and accelerated, close-ups
and vistas; collectively, they give a kaleidoscopic
impression of this country, more than a decade after
the end of Apartheid. |
Dreams of a Good Life, STEPS OF THE FUTURE (1x 15’) Documentary, South Africa, 2005 Dreams of a Good life is a film of laughter, fear and the solace of sharing.
Five women talk about life, love and how their dreams
for the future have changed since finding out they
are HIV positive. The women now examine their relationships
with men more openly than ever before. Broadcasts:
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Musical Investments (1 x 24’) Documentary, 2008 READ MORE...
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