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Welcome 1 – 3 Whatever Happened to African International Robert Mugabe 24 Booking Details 3 Documentary Where We Planted Trees Documentary Production Workshop 5 Festival 2011. International Panel Discussions 7 / 9 African Cats 25 As Festival programmers we are Seminar & Master Class 11 The Black Power Mix Tape privileged to watch more than South African 1967-1975 our fair share of films on every The Creators 12 Cup of Dreams 27 topic, from all over the globe. Forerunners – South Africa’s New David Wants to Fly This unique position allows us to gauge current developments Black Middleclass Feathered Cocaine 28 in the industry – through both From B-Boys to Being Men 13 Forbidden the quality and quantity of Glitterboys and Ganglands G-Spotting: A Story of Pleasure documentaries produced. and Promise 29 History Uncut – The Leaders 15 The Good Life This year we reviewed 400 films Imam and I The Guantanamo Trap 31 from across the globe, 53 of An Intersection 16 which are South African, from If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth King Naki Liberation Front filmmakers of varying professional experience and we congratulate Li-Xia’s Salon 17 Inside Job 33 the filmmakers and thank them for Mama Goema: The Cape Town Beat Joan Rivers – A Piece of Work their submissions. in Five Movements LennonNYC 34 Mining for Change. Our Daily Poison Over the last two years, we A Story of South African Mining 19 When China Met Africa 35 have witnessed South African Once upon a day: Brenda Fassie documentary filmmakers overcome Wild Thing considerable challenges, not least Porselynnkas Dokiementêr 20 Zip Zap … A Social Circus 36 of which is finding the money. Scars Staff In South Africa it is Industry Snap Shorts 21 Guest Biographies 37 – 43 organisations, Film Commissions, Government and the National Film Wellbodi Biznes 23 CT Schedule 44 – 46 and Video Foundation (NFVF) that Wembley to Soweto Jozi Schedule 47 – 49 assist filmmakers. 2 3 Regardless, we have noted that the South Thank you to all the Encounters staff and African entries submitted have improved volunteers, who make the Festival possible. in quality, and we are excited by the rise in the auteur-driven films, and that some Our programme cover reflects the diversity filmmakers have secured international of documentaries selected this year funding and are creating their own through the (in)famous icons depicted. exhibition platforms. There’s music, sports, revolution, human rights, humour, current news, scams and We are also proud of the international scandals, among other things … So sit films line-up, many of which have won top back and laugh, be provoked, excited, international awards. We strive to select challenged and moved … and then come films that are socially relevant to the South back for more. African experience, and will interest our Mandisa Zitha – Festival Director diverse audiences.

We welcome our international guests, Göran Hugo Olsson (Sweden), David Sieveking (Germany), Ségolène Hanotaux (France), and Julian Shaw (New Zealand); Ticket price: R40 all the local filmmakers, 25 of them – Cape Town NuM Concessions hailing from Jozi, Cape Town, and Durban; Nu Metro V&A Clicks, Metropolitan, OAP, and thank the many experts who are giving Jozi Half-price Wednesdays of their time to take part in our Panel Nu Metro Hyde Park Discussions (see pages 7 & 9). 0861 246 362 • www.numetro.co.za • m.numetro.co.za The Bioscope, Main Street Life, 286 Fox Street We thank the National Lottery [email protected] • www.thebioscope.co.za Distribution Trust Fund and the NFVF, Q&A – with Director PD – Panel Discussion our primary sponsors, and all the other organisations, particularly Out In Africa, and businesses that assist Encounters, often in-kind. Their logos, names and advertisements appear throughout the programme. DOWNLOAD PROGRAMME ENCOUNTERS WEBSITE Got a SmartPhone? Scan the QR codes for the programme. No QR app? Go to encounters.co.za for ‘how to’… Opening Doors_Encounters 5/11/11 4:20 PM Page 1

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Documentary 5 Producers Workshop 2011 13 –15 June in Cape Town In an increasingly competitive environment documentary producers need a broad range of skills to grow their business, and produce films that can travel internationally. Encounters, with the support of the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF) and the Cape Film Commission (CFC), will host a workshop to assist 10 to 12 documentary companies’ so that they can operate optimally. Top industry professionals, specialists in their chosen fields, will run the intensive three-day workshop. The topics include: • Introduction to Smart Producing. • Music Rights: Commissioning and Licensing. • Raising Finance for Documentaries: Exploring sources of finance, and how to secure those funds. • Archives – Access and Rights: Clearing rights of Archive films, photos, anything that can be owned. What is meant by ‘public domain’? What is ‘fair use’? • Marketing & Publicity: How to build a campaign to gain maximum exposure for your film. • Sales & Distribution: How to develop a strategy and to maximise revenue potential. • Understanding Contracts: The importance of the Chain of Title List of Agreements. • Working with Broadcasters: From Creative to Financial. • Running a Small / Medium Enterprise: How to run an efficient business. This is a closed workshop and the selection process has been completed. If you would like to attend such a workshop in the future, please email your company profile to [email protected] For further information please visit: www.encounters.co.za

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• Murray Michell is the Director Feathered Cocaine of the Financial Intelligence Dirs: Örn Marino Arnarson & Centre. Thorkell Hardarson • Markus Bürgener is a Senior Iceland 80min 2010 Programme Officer with the South African Guild of Editors TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade CT: Sunday 12th June 5.30pm in association with Encounters monitoring agency. NuM V&A • Moderator: Dennis Davis, is Present a Judge of the High Court of Cape Town and Judge President of the Cutting Documentary Film Competition Appeal Court. the craft of editing • Peter Leon, a partner in Mining for Change. Webber Wentzel, co-chairs A Panel discussion featuring A Story of South the firm’s mining, energy and natural resources practice Editors from the official Encounters 2011 African Mining group. film selection Dirs: Navan Chetty & Eric Miyeni • Jacinto Rocha is South Africa’s SA 72min 2010 former Deputy Director- General in the Department of When: Sat 25 June 2011 10am - 12pm th Jozi: Monday 13 June 8pm Mineral Resources. Where: AFDA, 18 Lower Scott Road, Observatory NuM Hyde Park • Moderator: Nick Dawes Cost: R50 is the Editor of the Mail & Contact: [email protected] Guardian newspaper. A special thanks to our sponsors • Murray Michell is the Feathered Cocaine Director of the Financial Dirs: Örn Marino Arnarson & Intelligence Centre. Thorkell Hardarson • David Newton works for Iceland 80min 2010 TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring agency. Jozi: Tuesday 14th June 8.30pm • Moderator: Kgomotso NuM Hyde Park Matsunyane, variously a writer, journalist, commissioning editor and tv personality, is also a film producer. PANEL DISCUSSIONS 9

• Director Ségolène Hanotaux G-Spotting is a science and medicine The DFA presents Dirs: Ségolène Hanotaux & journalist. Gilles Boyon She is in conversation with Canada / France 52min 2011 a mini-doc competition • th Melanie Judge is an author with 8 selected films screening at Encounters CT: Friday 17 June 6.30pm and gender activist. NuM V&A Since launching at Encounters Documentary festival in July 2007, the Documentary Filmmakers’ Association (DFA) has done much to develop the interests of documentary filmmakers in South Africa. Our activities have included research into copyright, Fair usage, Intellec- tual Property and distribution workshops. Through our DOClove program, Our Daily Poison • Prof. Leslie London we have initiated regular documentary screenings, fimmaker dialogue and specialises in Public Health host an up to date blog on documetary news. Dir: Marie-Monique Robin and Family Medicine at UCT. He has published widely in the In 2009 we introduced the 1st MY TOWN mini-doc competition which has France 112min 2010 field of pesticide hazards. developed into an exciting annual event. CT: Thursday 23th June 8.15pm For more information and to become a member,visit: NuM V&A • Glenn Ashton is the founder http://www.docfilmsa.com of SafeAge and an anti-GM activist. With special thanks to • Moderator: Martin Welz is the founding editor of the investigative magazine Noseweek.

The winning filmmaker will receive the NFVF SPARK award, aimed at developing filmmaking skills. • Dr. Eve is a sexologist and G-Spotting radio personality. Dirs: Ségolène Hanotaux & • Jonti Searll hosts tantric sex Gilles Boyon workshops. Canada / France 52min 2011 • th Moderator: Marianne CT: Saturday 25 June 6pm Thamm is a journalist, NuM V&A columnist and comedienne. WHAT Seminar & Master Class 11 stimulate training & development HOW A seminar with first-time filmmaker David Sieveking, whose film David Wants to Fly (see pg27), is screening making it more accessible at Encounters. WHO The Pleasure and Pain of Realising your First Film and the previously disadvantaged individuals and Perils of Success! An illustrated guide to the Finding Your those with financial difficulties Way between the Happening and the Haphazard. Date: Saturday • 18 June • 10am – 1pm Venue: TBC Cost: R50.00

A Master Class with Göran Olsson whose film The Black Power Mix Tape 1967-1975 (see pg25) is screening at Encounters. It took the Best Editing award at Sundance 2011. The best Historical films illuminate current events. • Awarding an • Providing training The NFVF How to make sense of a massive archive and produce a average of which addresses achieves documentary that is tight and topical. 60 bursaries per this by industry skills annum towards gaps, namely in Date: Saturday • 25 June • 2pm – 5pm film and television • Funding training scriptwriting and Venue: AFDA, 18 Lower Scott Road, Observatory studies to students providers who most recently, at the various offer specialised in international Cost: R50.00 tertiary institutions skills programmes financing, through in South Africa to the industry. the Sediba Training & abroad. & Development Programme. For more information on any of our training programmes, contact Pretty Mthiyane on [email protected] or 011 483 0880 To book: email [email protected] or visit our website, www.nfvf.co.za. For more info: Thuli on 021 465 46 86 12 SOUTH AFRICAN FILMS SOUTH AFRICAN FILMS 13

Forerunners – South Glitterboys and The Creators From B-Boys to Ganglands Africa’s New Black Middleclass Being Men Jacques de Villiers & Laura Gamse | Simon Wood | SA | 52min | 2011 Lauren Beukes | SA | 60min | 2011 SA/USA | 80min | 2011 Tanswell Jansen | SA | 37min | 2011 A cousin in jail, three households Deep in the heart of the Cape’s most Opening with the savvy perceptions to support, ancestor problems, Breakdancing, now called B-Boying, violent ganglands, sequins are being of twelve-year old animator Cashril stressful sales targets – the lot of seems an unlikely tool to effect sewn, hair arranged, tiaras polished, Plus, the son of graffiti artist the new black middle class is not social change and empower stilettos worn in, lashes glued and Faith47, the film weaves across a all BMWs and designer clothes. communities. But, as this raw shimmies perfected: all for a night bright cross-section of South Africa’s Wood sets out to find the reality film shows, passion, tenacity and of glitz, glamour and the honour assorted creators: Faith47 (graffiti), behind the black diamond myth a shoestring budget combined of being Miss Gay Western Cape. Warongx (afro-blues), Emile (hip by following four Buppies as they with a cool tool to reach the kids, Award-winning author Beukes, hop), Sweat.X (glam rap), Blaq Pearl negotiate a ruthless, demanding, makes for individual miracles. during the prelim rounds, turns a (spoken word) and Mthetho (opera). often critical world. Mpumi must Using footage from the 1980s and filmic eye on a few of the contenders Previously segregated from each open a rural care centre and deal 1990s, and interviews with the who bravely present their glittering other’s culture, each creates a new with ‘county time’. Miranda is a original B-Boy innovators, the inner lady to the world, and ask to be present and the exciting future of single parent holding down an filmmaker collates the history of the crowned. Kat Gilardi is the previous creativity in South Africa. The film executive job. Martin is missing phenomena from local community year’s princess and has her eye on focuses on each artist’s motivation, something and Karabo must return hall spats, to international award the prize but a family illness could social conscience, personal foibles to Soweto as the paterfamilias. and respect-winning battles, and derail all the work her and her hubby and individual artistic expression Wood’s film shines a welcome from local activists to international have put in. Miss Eva Torez works to show how, by pushing their spotlight on the world of South diplomats. Special focus is reserved by day as a mechanic, by night she own boundaries and those of the Africa’s recently rewarded. Success for the valuable work that Emile scrubs off the grease and shines, national art scene, these colourful is by no means guaranteed, and if (Black Noise) and Jansen do with and Miss Kayden van Eden, winner innovators provide visual and it comes, at what price? A layered, Heal the Hood, but the film does of many straight female pageants is musical connections between their intelligent, deeply moving film provide great background detail and preparing for the ultimate operation diverse audiences. deserving of a wide audience. valuable insight into the national and still manages to glimmer and Nominations: Best Documentary – Texas Dikalo Award – 2011 Pan African Film Hip-Hop scene. sashay down the catwalk. Black FF 2011 Festival, Cannes Courtesy of the Director Courtesy of Okuble Media, Clockwork Courtesy of the Directors Courtesy of the Director Zip Zap … A Social Circus Zoo and the Director CT Wed 15 6.45 Q&A | Fri 24 8.15 ct thu 16 6.45 Q&A CT Sat 11 6.15 Q&A | Sun 19 6.30 ct fri 10 8.30 Q&A | Sun 26 6 JOZI Bio Fri 17 8 JOZI NuM Sat 11 6.15 Q&A | Bio Sun 26 8 JOZI Bio Sat 18 8 JOZI Bio Sun 12 8 SOUTH AFRICAN FILMS 15

History Uncut – The Leaders Brian Tilley & Laurence Dworkin | SA | 60min | 2011 Imam and I Khalid Shamis | SA | 80min | 2011 The Leaders, part of a 13-part series taken from the Afravision Londoner Shamis, son of a Libyan collective’s archive, sits down with father and South African mother, arguably the two most eloquent, finds little help in his search for important players in post-Apartheid identity. He returns to Cape Town on South Africa, shortly after the the trail of his famous grandfather, unbanning of the ANC in the early the influential 1960s Imam Abdullah 1990s. Nelson Mandela and Chris Haron and finds a mixed bag of Hani, separately, discuss in detail prolonged cultural and political their incarceration, release, lives in-fighting. Haron was a divisive in exile, motivations and roles and unifying force in Muslim in the struggle. As an exercise in politics, championing the youth, hindsight it is fascinating with but alienating many in the Muslim both leaders forthright, intimate Judicial Council with his anti- and illuminating. Mandela’s Apartheid stance. Killed in custody, magnanimity is humbling, and there followed the predictable battle Hani’s description of himself as a for his legacy and achievements. misunderstood rebellious agitator As Shamis tries to distinguish fact within the movement has parallels from fiction, truth from legend and with contemporary voices within the contrivance from reality, a picture ANC. His revelations about previous emerges of two complex characters, attempts on his life are especially compelling in their contradictions, haunting, given his assassination the story of a man and a time that in 1993. shaped – and shattered – his family. Courtesy of the Directors Courtesy of the Director

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Mama Goema: The An Intersection Cape Town Beat in Five Karin Slater | SA / Botswana | King Naki Movements 28min | 2010 Tim Wege | SA | 80min | 2011 Ángela Ramirez Sara Gouveia & Calum Li-Xia’s Salon MacNaughton | SA | 60min | 2011 “There are a lot of fathers out The rural Transkei provides the Omelga Mthiyane | SA / China | there, but few daddies”. So begins glorious backdrop to racehorses, 21min | 2011 Take a pinch of Khoi-San lament, a Slater’s intimate portrayal of two their owner/trainers and the dash of Malay spice, a bold measure HIV positive people who decide to courses they run. Naki’s Thula Developed and supported by of European orchestral, a splash of have a child. The risks, the worries, Zobone is the fastest horse around the International Film Festival Xhosa spiritual, a clash of marching the practical details – Intersection and on his sturdy back rests his Rotterdam for their programme bands, a riff of rock, the pizzazz is remarkable for its calm, elegant owners’ dream of winning the Raiding Africa, filmmaker Mthiyane of the Klopse, some driving primal honesty and abiding gentleness. annual Amateur Championships. goes to Songzhuang to reverse the beat, and a lot of humour and It’s an ordinary Botswanan couple – Naki, who has a remarkable way current China-in-Africa trend – and musical virtuosity. What do you neither young, outspoken or in any with horses, has already beaten see the East for herself. It begins get? Goema Goema Goema! Mac way remarkable – that embark on the the odds by rising from stable in a beauty salon where her black MacKenzie, musical mastermind difficult journey towards parenthood. boy to horse owner and he’s won hair is greeted with laughter and and founder of The Genuines Yet, as the film unfolds and the birth most everything else on the wild, bemusement. But she befriends the and The Goema Captains of Cape imminent, the two become all sorts fenceless tracks of the high Eastern owner, a part-time painter and an Town, puts the final touches to the of remarkable, revealing a slew of Cape. He’s resolute, determined and unlikely bond grows between the culmination of his life’s work: Goema deeply affecting admissions and honourable, but Disprin and his two women. This intimate little in Five Movements. Musicians and intimacies that transform them into wealthy owner present a challenge film underlines the universality of musical commentators Hilton unwitting heroes for all would-be – the advantages that money experience as much as the cultural Schilder, Neo Muyanga, Iain Harris, parents battling prejudice. By turns brings and the disadvantages of the differences, from worries about Graham Arendse and Ntone Edjabe, intense, heart breaking, touching have-nots. Wege’s combination of self-expression to how to prepare and new kids on the block, Kyle as well as funny (a great first nappy on-site interview and non-invasive a hearty meal, and highlights the Shepherd and Shane Cooper, add a moment) Intersection demands a camerawork reveals a world seldom benefits of getting out of a comfort contemporary context. wide audience. seen – the magical score is an zone to learn more about yourself. Courtesy of the Directors and Plexus Films Courtesy of the Director and STEPS equally important part of the project. Courtesy of the Director Once upon a day: Wellbodi Biznes Courtesy of the Director and Plexus Films When China met Africa Brenda Fassie CT Sun 12 6.15 | Tues 21 6.30 ct fri 10 6.30 Q&A | Mon 20 6.30 CT Wed 15 6.30 Q&A | Sat 18 8 | Wed 22 8.45 CT Sat 11 8.15 Q&A | Sat 25 8 JOZI NuM Tues 14 6.30 Q&A | Sun 19 8 JOZI Bio Fri 10 8 JOZI NuM Sun 12 6 JOZI NuM Sat 18 6 | Bio Fri 24 / 8 SOUTH AFRICAN FILMS 19

THE OLD SHANGHAI FIRECRACKER FACTORY 700637 FACTORY THE OLD SHANGHAI FIRECRACKER Mining for Change. A Story of South African Mining ENCOUNTER LOW Navan Chetty & Eric Miyeni | SA | 72min | 2010 From the optimism of the 1955 RATES AND GREAT VALUE Kliptown Freedom Charter to Mandela’s 1992 admission to being Once upon a day: unable to ‘persuade’ the G7 at Davos Brenda Fassie to ‘allow’ South Africa to nationalise Eddie Edwards | SA | 28min | 2011 AT TEMPEST CAR HIRE mines, Mining For Change tracks the intriguing history of SA’s most Talented, charismatic, vivacious, yet important industry. The failures of troubled, Brenda Fassie is a national the Mining Charter and new calls for icon that symbolised so much for nationalisation are debated by scores so many in South Africa. In 2004, of heavyweights, from Oppenheimer just before she died, Fassie spent a and Malema to Ramaphosa and day in Cape Town with filmmaker Mandela, who reveal back room Edwards. The footage reveals much discussions on the global pressure about Fassie’s state of mind in that forced the u-turn. New voices her last months when she returns and labour and rights groups to her childhood home in Langa, uncover the wealth, systems and visits her parent’s graves, works interests that have kept the industry the fans wherever she goes – at the ‘untouchable’. The film steers a local shebeen and a chemist – and considered path between social and gives a sensational impromptu business aspects, measuring debate performance on Obs’ Lower Main of the need to transform against the Road. Interspersed among these need to stay globally competitive. vital snapshots are Fassie’s take Compelling cinema and essential on family, love and celebrity and, viewing for anyone interested in the prophetically, her death. real future of South Africa. Courtesy of the Director 0861 836 7378 www.tempestcarhire.co.za Courtesy of the Directors Mama Goema www.facebook.com/tempestcarhire ct fri 17 6.45 Q&A | Thu 23 6.30 CT Sat 11 8.15 | Sat 25 8 A level 2 BBBEE rated company JOZI NuM Mon 13 8 PD Bio | Wed 22 8 Q&A JOZI NuM Sat 18 6 Q&A | Bio Fri 24 / 8 SERIOUSLY LOW RATES 20 SOUTH AFRICAN FILMS 21

Cannabis Frank Stephens | SA | 10min | 2011 Culture Young people smoke dagga, zol, dope, cannabis and talk about what happens when you get stoned and get the munchies. Endless Craig Mulligan | SA | 7min | 2011 Bummer A beautifully filmed portrayal of Cape Town surfers uphill battle to find perfect waves. Porselynnkas Scars Dokiementêr Tiny Laubscher & Chris Schutte | Hier’s ek ook Nadia Horn | SA | 6min | 2011 SA | 46min | 2011 Here I am too Matthew Kalil | SA | 52min | 2011 An intimate and deeply sensitive portrait of old people Dancers Megan Erasmus and abandoned by their families in an old age home. Mid-90s Afrikaans theatre needed Celeste Botha trace their ancestry a black sheep – and got it in through dance and drama in a In Repair Lucy Jacobs | SA | 6min | 2011 the trippy, bizarre, audacious stage show of the same name. A vital portrait of a vital woman dealing with the Porselynkas performance poetry The exploration of what it means ravages of living with HIV/AIDS. group. Fourteen years later the to be coloured, the importance founder searches for the original of roots and heritage, is mingled Riders of Rustum Jaffer | SA | 9min | 2011 members, intent on interviewing with frank, intimate interviews them and having one final with them and their families. Here the Night South African paramedics are at the frontline of dealing ‘happening’. The interviews are off- the film is at its most compelling, with the results of acute violence. This sensitive portrait the-wall and there’s original footage revealing glimpses of hidden delves into the inner feelings of an affected paramedic. of the edgy, messy, weird shows prejudices, rarely spoken truisms Courtesy of the University of Cape Town where everything was acceptable and touching moments of almost and nothing too outré, anarchic throw-away epiphany. Scars offers a African Identities: Shades of Belonging or taboo. And while the film isn’t window into the world of dance as My Story: Johnny Blok | SA | 14min | 2011 too bothered about ‘why’, there the women conceptualise, debate are a handful of commentators and rehearse. The convergence of A Story Andriesvale is a forgotten village nestled between the on hand to explain the cultural race and dance (a longtime Jazzart of Music borders of Namibia and Botswana. Johnny Blok, who context – why it was so popular, and preoccupation) is one of Scars’ most has earned his rightful place in the ≠Khomani San unpopular, could only have come intriguing elements. What, after all, community, was taught music by his dad. is the difference between white and out of Stellenbosch, and whether Nancy Rumbidzai Matsape | SA 13min | 2011 the prayers of various church groups black dance, has a South African My Story: helped. Equally interesting is the convergence happened yet and how A Message Zimbabwean Matsape is a woman and a panelbeater. film’s unwitting commentary on the does being coloured influence it? for Munashe She wants to teach her son to value and respect women, evolution of the avant-garde. Courtesy of the Directors something his father failed to do in his lifetime. Courtesy of the Director Where we Planted Trees Courtesy of Institute for Justice and Reconciliation CT Sun 12 8.15 Q&A | Fri 24 6.45 ct thu 16 6.30 Q&A | Mon 20 6.45 CT Wed 22 6.30 Q&A JOZI Bio Tues 14 8 JOZI NuM Sat 25 6 JOZI Bio Mon 20 8 SOUTH AFRICAN FILMS 23

Wellbodi Biznes Miki Redelinghuys & Kyle O’Donoghue | SA | 45min | 2011 Wembley to Soweto In 2009 President Bai Koroma Kagiso Sesoko | SA | 50min | 2010 announced that Sierra Leone would deliver free health care to A mad Englishman and mad mothers and children under five by American give an opportunity to April 2010. Examining the reality a handful of young photographers of putting his policy into practice during the 2010 World Cup. Actor is at the core of this powerful David Westhead and photographer fly-on-the-wall film, shot during John Cole, with the help of Judy a Mother and Child Healthcare Roberts at photography logistics week. Here a simple syringe is a rare company Converge, set up a commodity, and though poverty, challenge for eight photographers ignorance and laissez-faire attitudes from Umuzi Photo Club. Can abound, two people struggle to they match the pictures taken make the difference. Against the at Wembley in 1988 to celebrate backdrop of a regional war still Madiba’s birthday? We follow the acutely felt, the odds are stacked set up and the photographers as against them. Beautifully shot and they travel, see, learn and ultimately sensitively edited, Wellbodi Biznes triumph during the chaotic, happy, doesn’t take sides or point fingers, crazy time. The film is not just a but rather underlines the bitter vivid example of collaborative can- struggle in Sierra Leone to lower the do, but also a fast-paced keepsake of astonishingly high mortality rates of a special time. both mothers and infants. Viewers’ Award – We The People Film Courtesy of the Directors and Plexus Films Festival, UK An Intersection Courtesy of the Director and Wiseman CT Sun 12 6.15 Q&A | Tues 21 6.30 ct tues 14 8.30 JOZI NuM Tues 14 6.30 | Sun 19 8 PD JOZI Bio Wed 15 8 Q&A 24 SOUTH AFRICAN FILMS INTERNATIONAL FILMS 25

The Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975 Where we “African Cats” Ph: Owen Newman ©Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Göran Hugo Olsson | Sweden | Whatever Happened to Planted Trees 93min | 2010 Robert Mugabe Shelley Barry | SA | 26min | 2011 African Cats Sweden’s relationship with Simon Bright | SA | 80min | 2011 Alastair Fothergill & Keith Scholey | Nixon’s quasi-fascist imperialist Fifty years after losing their Port USA | 89min | 2011 USA was fraught, and in various Parallel narratives tell the stories of Elizabeth home because of the fora Sweden actively advanced Rhodesia’s transition to Zimbabwe Group Areas Act, the Barrys return Beautifully filmed, and narrated by the causes of the black, gay and and Mugabe’s personal journey, to reconnect with early memories. Samuel L Jackson, Disney’s third women’s movements. One such using one to explain the other, A disparate group, scattered by real-world nature documentary initiative was a film series on the finally suggesting why Mugabe chose economics and politics after the goes to Kenya to tell the story of civil rights struggle. From this the road he has. As a biography removal, all remember a time of two cat families on the Masai Mara. archive comes Olsson’s intelligent, it has everything, great personal tall trees, the smell of crushed An invading trio of younger males smart and challenging film, expertly detail, and as his star ascends leaves and childhoods full of threatens the first, a pride watched tailored, a montage of interviews, commentators reflect on early laughter and tears. Most intriguing over by the aging Fang; the other, a reviews and documentary insights landmarks in his career. That the is the interaction between the cheetah named Sita and her new- into some of the most important intellectual Young Turk was admired present white owners and the born cubs, must face all dangers players in the movement. With the and respected is illustrated by Barrys, who present a range of alone – set against the backdrop of benefit of hindsight, the film is an fascinating archival film interviews. views; bewilderment from the very one of the world’s great untamed absorbing exercise in revolutionary The parallel story of the transition young, deep hurt from the second wildernesses. Astonishing footage of politics, strong on intellectualism, is equally well researched, as is generation and grace from the the annual migrations, cheetah and fascinating in its detail with myriad Lancaster House, the Matabeleland first. Ultimately a film about the lion kills, a run-in with a crocodile messages for latter day champions genocide and the effect of global power of memory, it offers a moving and extraordinarily original of counterculture politics. The score business on Africa’s economies. But argument for the benefits of closure imagery of the Eastern plains are is rocking Motown classic and the it’s the behind-the-scenes jostling – and the need for emotional as well competition for Attenborough- film features luminaries such as for power, which Bright exposes as financial restitution. led biopics. The clear, intimate Stokely Carmichael, Erykah Badu, that are the most riveting. Mugabe Best Documentary – Diamond Screen storylines will captivate children, Harry Belafonte and more. emerges as unquestionably one of Film Festival 2006, Philadelphia. and others will be drawn in by the World documentary editing award – history’s most canny leaders. Courtesy of the Director sheer opulence of the big screen Sundance 2011 Courtesy of the Director and Spier Films Scars spectacle. Worth every cent. Courtesy of the Embassy of Sweden CT Mon 13 8.30 Q&A | Sun 26 8.15 ct thu 16 6.30 | Mon 20 6.45 Q&A CT Sat 11 6 | Wed 15 9 | Thu 16 8.30 CT Fri 10 8.45 | Thu 16 8.30 | Fri 24 8.30 Q&A JOZI NuM Fri 10 8.45 | Fri 17 8.30 | Sun 26 8 JOZI NuM Sat 25 6 JOZI NuM Tues 21 6.30 | Wed 22 6.30 | Sat 25 8 JOZI NuM Fri 10 6.45 | Thu 16 6.30 | Wed 22 8.30 Q&A INTERNATIONAL FILMS 27

Fine food, art, books and ideas at 6 Spin Street Restaurant, Lobby Books and Idasa’s Democracy Centre ... uplifting encounters. David Wants to Fly David Sieveking | Germany / Austria / Switzerland | 97min | 2010 6 Spin Street Restaurant, Cape Town Cup of Dreams Unwittingly stumbling onto Opening times: All day Monday to Friday from 08:30 Julian Shaw | New Zealand | outrageous global fraud, this 53min | 2010 is a whimsical, humourous Dinner: Monday to Saturday and unexpected journey into Reservations: T 021 461 0666; E [email protected] Beginning with the haka and ending “enlightenment”. Film grad with a valedictory on the merits Sieveking hears that David Lynch, of tribe, Shaw’s ode to rugby will his idol, is heading up a conference resonate with every sports fan, on creativity at the Maharishi regardless of code or allegiance. University. He arrives in Iowa to find An unashamed All Blacks fanatic, that it’s really about the teachings of Shaw’s wide-ranging film is about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (of Beatles home, heroes, obsession, the fame). Confused, but still game, 2011 World Cup, the pain of the Sieveking seeks an audience with 2007 loss to France and about his idol and Lynch, sniffing a useful Shaw himself. He laces it with an convert, grants him unprecedented intimate, compulsive essence – and access. Naïve and enthusiastic, inadvertently a strange sadness. Sieveking throws himself into The interviews paint a picture the task, but once the Yogi dies, of a people and an individual so duped and disgruntled benefactors enmeshed with rugby that it’s reveal that all is not well, nor as it impossible to separate them. As a seems, in the seductive world of French journalist suggests “we have transcendental meditation. When 64 million people who don’t like it is clear that Sieveking is not a rugby, but New Zealand has four convenient marketing tool, Lynch million who live for it”. turns nasty. Courtesy of the Director Courtesy of the Goethe-Institut

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G-Spotting: A Story of Feathered Cocaine Pleasure and Promise Örn Marino Arnarson & Thorkell Ségolène Hanotaux & Gilles Boyon | Hardarson | Iceland | 80min | 2010 Forbidden /Mamnou Canada / France | 52min | 2011 The Good Life Nothing is quite as it seems in this Amal Ramsis | Egypt / UK | IT was hailed as the great sexual Eva Mulvad | Denmark | 87min | 2010 provocative foray into the murky 67min | 2011 liberator of women in the early world of raptor smuggling, Middle 1980s, and though the sexually- In a tiny flat on the Portuguese Eastern politics and one seriously Ramsis’ attempt to answer why she active world embraced the G-Spot, coast, mother and daughter unconventional twitcher, Alan lives in such a repressive society for many the exact location remains Beckmann lament the loss of their Parrot. We follow Parrot, one of the becomes a prophetic snapshot of elusive and medical science is wealth. Having lived the highlife first to export birds of prey and now the last days of a fallen regime. still searching for a distinctive of the Danish elite they now both deeply regretting it, in his attempts Days after finishing her film Egypt’s anatomical feature. Then in 2010 eke out a (relatively) sad existence to impose new regulations and a corrupt government disintegrated. a scientist threw the sexology from the Mother’s Danish pension. delighfully bizarre segue into why An ordinary Cairo citizen, her life world into a tizz by suggesting It’s a typical riches to rags story, such regulations will never happen. was ruled by a thousand dictates that the infamous Gräfenberg Spot but what holds the film together is In a nutshell Parrot’s hypothesis meant to define and refine her. Life is unproven and subjective. The the charming, egocentric, obviously is that falconry is at the heart was difficult for all under Mubarak’s filmmakers decided to investigate confused, but at times downright of Arab business practices – the regime and for women it was IT and they visit research centres nasty daughter. At 56, she refuses proverbial golf course – and that doubly burdensome as it affected and female ejaculation seminars, to work, berating her 83-year-old outlawing the hunt and trade everything from where they walked discuss the issue with the woman mother for not giving her the life would be tantamount to banning to buying electronic equipment. As who ‘discovered’ IT and hear that she was “promised”. Portraying stock exchanges. The film follows a slice of life it offers a fascinating of intimate experience from two women who are hopelessly an intriguing trail of high-powered insight into the background to the supporters and detractors alike. bad at being poor, this personal ‘knowns’ as they illustrate his point; wider Arab uprisings, presenting an G-Spotting is a playful, diverting and intimate film delves into the most sensationally a smuggler who everyday social dimension to the yet illuminating look at pleasure, emotionally fraught, endlessly claims Bin Laden spent time in Iran humiliation faced by many across through science, social revolution, hopeful world of a pair who still running falcon camps. the Arab world at the hands of their and conflicting beliefs. live in the halcyon and long-gone Courtesy of FilmsTransit International own rulers. Courtesy of the French Embassy and memories of yesteryear. and the Directors Courtesy of the Director FilmsTransit International Courtesy of the Danish Film Institute

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Inside Job Charles Ferguson | USA | 108min | 2010 In early 2008 the global financial world collapsed. To many, this Tel: + 27 (0)21 461 7062 • Fax: + 27 (0)21 462 6202 came as a complete and utter Joan Rivers – A Piece Cell: + 27 (0)72 901 0991 surprise. Inside Job, fittingly, is of Work a scathing, sad and sorry tale of Email: [email protected] gross financial mismanagement Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg | USA | and terrifying political interference 84min | 2010 Rutland Lodge, 5 Montrose Avenue, Oranjezicht and complicity. Although it begins Cuttingly irreverent, politically in Iceland, the film focuses mainly 8001 Cape Town, South Africa incorrect and extraordinarily on the US’ role in the financial candid, Joan Rivers is a force of quagmire out of which the world augmented nature. This fly-on- is still trying to climb. For 40 years the-wall documentary repeatedly after the Great Depression, the illustrates that even at the age of 75 American economy was stable, she is not nearly ready to step out of prosperous and grew within its own the limelight and retire gracefully. limits. But once Reagan decided to A dynamo of endless energy and deregulate the banks, the financial constant career making or breaking wheels – helped by a healthy dose ideas, Rivers tenaciously pursues gigs, any gig, to keep working and of greed, manoeuvring, corruption feel complete. Blended with archival and outright fraud – truly started footage, the camera follows her to come off. Chillingly narrated through disappointment, desperation, by Matt Damon, this Cannes and rejection, vulnerability, loss and deep Oscar winning film deconstructs insecurity; and then back to success. the meltdown with laser precision, Often poignant, occasionally sober and debunking myths, dissecting then laugh-out-loud funny, the camera practices and making the main looks behind her controversially players squirm. sculpted mask to the real Joan Rivers in a light that is neither fawning nor Best Documentary – 2011 Academy unsympathetic. Awards Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary – Director’s Courtesy of Pieter-Dirk Uys Guild Best Documentary – NY Film www.pdu.co.za Critics Circle 2010 Best Documentary US Documentary editing award Screenplay – Writers Guild 2010 Sundance 2010

When China met Africa Nick Francis & Marc Francis | © B en R oss France /UK | 75min | 2010 Wild Thing Our Daily Poison Jerome de Missolz | France | LennonNYC Marie-Monique Robin | France | Here are three separate, beautifully 106min | 2010 Michael Epstein | USA | 112min | 2010 shot stories that tell of China’s involvement in Africa, specifically 115min | 2010 In 1955 Little Richard’s voice Relentless Robin undertakes an Zambia – a Chinese farmer, a ripped through the curtain of Hounded by the UKs’ gutter press astonishing global investigation Chinese road builder, and the post war gentility and changed bent on crucifying Yoko Ono, into the chemicals in our food – Zambian Trade Minister on tour, music forever, launching a million Lennon settled in New York in 1971. exactly what is allowed, by whom out to secure more Chinese funding. dreams of escape and rebellion. De The iconic Beatle’s wilderness years and why. The pesticide market is The thorny issues of globalisation Missolz’s rockumentary, as much a were anything but … he became worth some R250 billion annually, and the new colonialism are the reinvention of memory as a parade the go-to activist, lover, agitator Europe alone spreads 139 million elephants in the room, but it’s the of the peerless and the pathetic, and moral compass for a decade kilograms on its fields, yet all data small stuff that sets this film apart. from Elvis to Sid Vicious, gracefully gone mad – remember Nixon and on toxicity is legally withheld from Liu Chang’s language issues with his fuses the intersections of legend, Vietnam. In nine short years Yoko the WHO. By turns riveting, funny farm workers; Li Jianguo’s customs theatre, sex, drugs and artifice, left him, California nearly killed and dense with detail, Robin’s film problems; and Minister Mutati’s and it’s brought to life by a poetic him, the Feds tried to deport him, is at odds with the generalities of admission that the Chinese can’t script. Lovers of the mainstream, a son revived him and in December the WHO and other regulatory be bothered with red tape. Here is the counter culture and every other 1980 Mark Chapman shot him. bodies that, she subtly implies, the truth and the warning – the movement of rock’s 60-year history Front and centre is Yoko, it’s her are in the pocket of the corporate Chinese are doers, needing only an will be moved to tears. For the chance to set the record straight. giants. She traces our chemical diet opportunity; the West is bogged rest, the chance to see the likes of Her revelations of Lennon’s adultery and uncovers, if not conspiracy, down by process. The consequence Genesis P-Orridge from the Velvet and banishment are as honest as then near criminal disregard. Who of minimal planning and the Underground, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, the details of his binge drinking and really sets the Allowed Daily Intake, undertow of exploitation is the Gary Duncan, Richard Hell, the eventual return to the fold (thanks or ADI, of chemicals? And who unspoken steel of the film. Animals, Lydia Lunch and the other to a lamé pant-suited Elton John). regulates the Maximum Residue Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award – beautiful posers as old wrinklies is A film for Lennon fanatics as well as Levels, or MRL? The answers will Margaret Mead Film Festival an opportunity too good to miss. students of life, history, music and both surprise and shock. Li-Xia’s Salon Primal therapy. very, very bad hair. Courtesy of INA and the French Embassy Courtesy of the French Embassy Courtesy of INA and the French Embassy

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A filmmaker, as a musician, having released the Projectionist cinematographer and editor, album sleepsongs and the More Zip Zap … Donovan Oostendorp he also developed the Super-16 Production Assistant / Chaperone Wind For Lonely Suburbs EP. He is A Social Circus A-cam. He is the founder of the currently at work on a new album Jessie Ayles | UK | 24min | 2010 Steven Markovitz short documentary TV program and the completion of a long- Nodi Murphy Ikon (SVT) and is a member of the Brent van Rensburg’s Zip Zap term video installation project, In Editorial board of Ikon South Africa. Memoriam: Eulogies to Lost Time. Circus School prepares for the Encounters Board Olsson travels courtesy of the opening night of Which Way Up, Susan Levine Embassy of Sweden. the school’s take on what it’s like Steven Markovitz Cup of Dreams to be part of the big top jamboree. Kgomotso Matsunyane What started with a single trapeze Nodi Murphy The Creators Julian Shaw Director in a township school yard went on Dumisa Ntsebeza Laura Gamse New Zealander to become the template for creative Ciraj Rassool Producer / Co-Director Shaw’s first film, community programmes in South Mandisa Zitha Darling! The Pieter- Africa. Interviews with children and American born Film Writers Dirk Uys Story, full-time performers highlight the Gamse received won a British Film school’s ethos of respect, laughter, Peter Frost a Fulbright Isla Haddow Institute Award, an togetherness and most of all, fun. Fellowship in 2009. IF Independent Spirit Award and There are stories of lives recovered, Marketing and Publicity Gamse is currently a Berlinale Panorama Audience Obs House, the school’s subsidised Joy Sapieka working on the Award. He has produced and accommodation, the boy who never Kevin Kriedemann invisible sessions, a series of directed two other films. Since knew how to say thank you, wounds musical meditations intended to the age of 15 he has worked as a healed, respect regained and, flying Design & layout increase international awareness of journalist, interviewing the famous above it all, the imperturbable spirit Encounters Team phenomenal African artists; and the of Van Rensburg and his very cool, Toby Attwell, Toby2Shoes and infamous, and authored the Abahlali Bikes Initiative, a project photo novel Modern Odysseus. very dedicated team. Tania Bester dedicated to stimulating alternative Courtesy of the Director transportation in South Africa. From B-Boys to Being Men Volunteers Sharon Jackson CT Sat 11 6.15 | Sun 19 6.30 Arthur Mataruse JOZI Bio Sat 18 8 Tamsin Ranger 38 GUESTS GUESTS 39 David Wants to Fly From B-Boys to Glitterboys and Imam and I David Sieveking Being Men Ganglands Khalid Shamis Director Director Tanswell Jansen Lauren Beukes Director Shamis trained in German born Director the UK and Middle Beukes is a novelist, Sieveking studied East as a film and TV scriptwriter and directing at the Cape Town born writer, director and Jansen’s love of journalist. Her editor. He settled in German Film and novel Zoo City Television Academy Hip Hop and its SA in 2005 and runs the production elements of art, recently won both company tubafilms. He is a board in Berlin, and the Arthur C Clarke also works as an editor, assistant music and dance member of The South African led him to challenge and the Kitschies Red Tentacle Screen Federation (SASFED), an director and actor in film and awards. She co-wrote the pilot TV productions. A 2003 Berlinale the mainstream media’s negative active member of the Documentary portrayal of Hip Hop culture. He for the satirical political puppet Filmmakers’ Association (DFA), Talent Campus graduate he has show, Z-News; she was head writer made award-winning shorts and began documenting the work of Hip the South African Guild of Editors Hop Pioneer and Brother Emile YX? and occasional director on SA’s (SAGE) and the SA Scriptwriters’ documentaries that have screened all first full length animated TV over the world. David Wants to Fly is of Black Noise and competitions Union (SASWU). His last film, The such as African Battle Cry, Shut Up show, URBO: The Adventures of Killing of the Imam, won the best his documentary feature début. Pax Afrika; and wrote for Florrie’s Just Dance and the African Hip Hop short documentary SAFTA 2011. Sieveking travels courtesy of the Dragons (Disney Channel). Her Indaba. To date he has produced Goethe-Institut first comic is in Vertigo’s Strange over 24 event based shows. Adventures anthology. Glitterboys and An Intersection Forerunners G-Spotting Ganglands is her documentary début. Karin Slater Producer / Simon Wood Director Director / Cinematographer Ségolène Hanotaux History Uncut In 1998 Wood Director Slater, a ‘Best Student Brian Tilley & Laurence Director’ 1989 won a Fuji award, Dworkin Directors graduated from A Graduate from the graduate of Technikon the University Sorbonne University Natal, began as a for the Creative in Paris and the wildlife filmmaker and Arts (Canterbury) and worked Ecole Supérieure won four Avanti Awards in 2000 for in television in the UK and then de Journalisme de Animal Powers. Her focus has since in Southern Africa producing Lille, Hanotaux shifted to people and her six recent documentary content for networks has since worked as a television films have screened all over the world in Europe, Asia and the US. He journalist. She specialised reporting Brian Tilley and Laurence Dworkin with 50 Years! Of Love? taking the was the Development Executive on on medicine and science for French were founders of Afravision, a video top awards in 2008 at both Durban the feature Izulu Lami / My Secret television. She currently lives in collective that documented the IFF and Apollo. She is the recipient Sky (2008). His company SaltPeter New Delhi, India. G-Spotting is her struggles that swept South Africa of the prestigious Trailblazer Award Productions has two documentary début documentary. in the eighties. The Afravision – MIPDOC Cannes 2008. She has projects in development. He has Hanotaux travels courtesy of the archive is rumoured to be the most taught Independent Documentary lectured at UCY and the FIFA French Embassy comprehensive and in depth archive at Selkirk College, Canada, and is Football for Hope. of that period. Dworkin and Tilley currently a head mentor at Big Fish still work in film, but only because School of Digital Filmmaking in they have few other options. Cape Town. 40 GUESTS GUESTS 41 King Naki Mama Goema Mining for Change Once upon a day: Tim Wege Director Ángela Ramirez, Eric Miyeni Brenda Fassie Sara Gouveia, Calum Producer / Co-Director Eddie Edwards Director Wege graduated McNaughton Directors from Rhodes Edwards shot his University (1997) first film, King for a with a Journalism Knight (1991) on a degree in television borrowed cam-corder. and camera studies. This led him into the He began working as freelance world of documentary filmmaking, travel writer, stills photographer and he has won numerous awards and lighting cameraman for various for his films The Black and The documentary and television series. Fight. For television he was the As a cameraman he has worked for Eric Miyeni is perhaps best known all the major networks, locally and Creative Director for the inaugural Ángela Ramirez (Colombia) is as a performer and satirist. He has series of Big Brother Africa. He also internationally, and has directed an audiovisual communicator and had numerous film roles – Cry the numerous commercials and episodes directed Zola 7 in Africa. Edwards director of the short documentary Beloved Country opposite James is the Series Director for the ZAIN of the SABC Arts-doc series, Welcome a Tumaco, which won Earl Jones, Bopha opposite Danny telecommunications’ CSR Project in Headwrap. In 2007 he made How Best Documentary Film at CineCun Glover, Dangerous Ground opposite Funky is my Chicken that traces the Zambia, Niger, and Ghana. Festival (2005) and a New Creator Liz Hurley and Ice Cube and in Soccer for Hope project. King Naki is Award at the Cartagena Film Waati directed by Souleymanne his debut feature documentary. Festival (2006). She is currently an Cisse. He has directed a number of Porselynnkas artist in residence at Greatmore commercials and the short film The Dokiementêr Li-Xia’s Salon Studios in Cape Town. Final Embrace. Matthew Kalil Omelga Mthiyane Director Photographer and videographer Director Sara Gouveia (Portugal) has Navan Chetty Co-Director Mthiyane has a MA in photography from the Chetty, a Fine Art and Photography South African born Kalil graduated directed several University of Bolton (England) and graduate, first worked as set/ with an MA in Screenwriting from documentary films. Dalian University (China). Her work costume designer at the Asoka The Northern Film School (Leeds). She was born in has been published and exhibited Theatre (UNDW), then as an artist He has lectured at UCT, AFDA Inanda on the internationally. She is part of the in residence at The Printmaking and Tisch (NYU). He writes and outskirts of Durban. Cape Town-based audiovisual Workshop in New York. Back in SA directs and his projects have been She received the Our People, Our performance-art project Darkroom he was an on-air presenter (SABC) exhibited, screened and broadcast Pride award from President Bingu Collective. and shot and directed a range of in Denmark, Canada, France, New wa Mutharika for her documentary Calum MacNaughton (South programmes in the lifestyle, travel Zealand, America, Thailand, Sweden, Ikhaya. Malawi. Her films have Africa) studied Literature and and youth genres. In the past five Morocco and South Africa. In 2005 been showcased at international Film Theory at the University of years he has travelled the African he spearheaded the creation of the festivals such as Sundance, the Cape Town and has a MA in World continent, shooting and directing Amarabella Township Film Festival, Berlinale, The Pusan and HotDocs Literature from the University the lifestyle/travel programme screening and making films in Cape among others. She is the member of Madrid (Spain) and St. Louis Studio 53 on DSTV. Town’s informal settlements. He is of Filmmaker’s Against Racism and University (USA). He is a creative currently writing his 4th feature film directed Baraka which opposes writer and works as a new media script in collaboration with Stefan xenophobia in South Africa. strategist and content producer. Blank and funded by the NFVF. 42 GUESTS GUESTS 43 Scars Wellbodi Bizness Wembley to Soweto Where We Tiny Laubscher Kyle O’Donoghue Kagiso Sesoko Director Planted Trees Co-Director Laubscher has Seseko matriculated Shelley Barry Director worked in film and O’Donoghue is both a documentary in 2003. He took television for the cameraman and director. His debut many courses A Ford Foundation past 34 years as a film Brass Boys (2007) was selected in computers scholarship took director and editor for the prestigious IDFA film festival. and business Barry to the US in numerous genres He has worked for Carte Blanche management and and in 2006 she including corporate, marketing and has documented a wide variety in 2006, with four other partners, graduated from and instructional videos (Sun of United Nations Projects around set up Paperpush Productions and Temple University, International, SAB, Standard Africa. In the past six months he has makes corporate videos. Recently he Philadelphia, with her Masters Bank, Simba, Dairybelle); social been on shooting expeditions to the took a course in scriptwriting at the in Fine Arts in Film. She has won documentary and wildlife films for Antarctic, Aconcagua in Argentina Newtown Film School. Wembley to multiple awards for her short films, National Geographic, Discovery and the Caucasus Mountain range Soweto is his début documentary. which include the Audre Lorde Channel, BBC and SABC; television in Russia. Award for Media. Following a dramas for MNET, kykNET and shooting during the Cape taxi wars SABC; and edited feature films for Whatever Happened to of 1996 Barry is now a wheelchair for Heinrich Dahms, Leon Schuster user. As an activist she has worked and Gray Hofmeyr. Robert Mugabe as the Media Manager in the Office Simon Bright Director on the Status of Disabled Persons in the Presidency. Her film career Chris Schutte Zimbabwean Bright includes stints at e.tv and Cape Town Chris started in the film and began his career TV. Most recently she shot Place of television industry 36 years ago. with the Ministry of Grace with funding from the Gordon Together with Laubscher, Schutte Agriculture. In the Institute (UCT). Her company is learned his craft in the late 70s Miki Redelinghuys 80s he co-founded twospinningwheels productions. and early 80s at Independent Co-Director Zimmedia that, Film Centre under the doyen of Award-winning Redelinghuys primarily, made films to combat documentary film making Raymond graduated with a BA Hons the political and military Apartheid Hancock. Schutte is now a DOP degree, after which she worked regime. He also covered the conflicts and has shot films for both Leon in television as researcher, in Mozambique and Angola, and Schuster & Gray Hofmeyr. editor and scriptwriter. She later broke the news of the Angolan became a freelance director and victory at Cuito Cuanvale. His pan- cameraperson. She has worked African drama series, Mama Africa, extensively on the African continent celebrates the talents of Africa’s for local and international women writer/directors. He has broadcasters. In 2009 her début produced two fiction films, Flame feature documentary Keiskamma and Bintou that were selected for the – A Story of Love won the Ousmane Cannes Film Festival. Sembene Films for Development Award at the 12th Zanzibar IFF. 44 45 CT SCHEDULE all times are pm CT SCHEDULE all times are pm

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nuM 8 Hyde The Bioscope nuM 8 Hyde The Bioscope 16 Thursday 22 Wednesday 6.30 The Black Power Mixtape 8 Forbidden 6.30 African Cats 8 Mining for Change Q&A 8.30 Our Daily Poison 8.30 The Black Power Mixtape Q&A 17 Friday 6.30 The Guantanamo Trap 8 The Creators 23 Thursday 8.30 Whatever Happened to Robert Mugabe 6.30 Our Daily Poison 8 Feathered Cocaine 8.45 Inside Job 18 Saturday 24 Friday 6 Mama Goema + 8 From B-Boys to Being Men + Once upon a day: Zip Zap 6.30 Joan Rivers 8 Mama Goema + Brenda Fassie Q&A Once upon a day: Brenda Fassie 8.15 Wild Thing 8.30 Wild Thing

19 Sunday 25 Saturday 6 Cup of Dreams 8 LennonNYC 6 Scars + 8 David Wants to Fly 8 Wellbodi Biznes + PD + Where We Planted Trees An Intersection 8 African Cats

20 Monday 26 Sunday 6.30 G-Spotting 8 Snap Shots 6 Inside Job 8 Forerunners 8 David Wants to Fly Q&A 8 Whatever Happened to 21 Tuesday Robert Mugabe 6.30 African Cats 8 Imam and I Q&A 8.30 Inside Job