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Video Interview: Zamo Mkhwanazi – Sadla (Short Film) 2020 Sundance Film Festival

Premiering her shorts at prestige fests such as Clermont-Ferrand, Cannes and the Toronto Intl. Film Festivals, Johannesburg (known as Jozi for locals) and Switzerland based filmmaker Zamo Mkhwanazi explores the notions of an apartheid that was never truly erased and of public psychological repression exquisitely detailed series of multi-POV vignettes. Doing a better job in describing a communal toxicity in five minutes than what a full length feature film could do. For Sundance Film Festival sit down we discussed some of previous short film themes, the striking look found in Sadla and the narrative story strategy employed. Mkhwanazi is currently prepping her debut feature, Laundry.


Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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