Rooted in an observational, character-driven approach, Zamo Mkhwanazi's work explores intimate moments drawn from lived experience, focusing on how ordinary routines reveal larger social...
We first became aware of South Africa filmmaker Zamo Mkhwanazi’s cinema language with her last short film in the TIFF/Sundance selected Sadla back in...
The section dedicated to dedicated to works by first and second-time filmmakers, Toronto International Film Festival have announced the twenty-three films in the Discovery...
The Atlas Workshops is Marrakech International Film Festival's vital industry and talent-development programme for projects in development, films in production and in post-production. Among...
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...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.