Le premier film de Ngakane estt ce court métrage documentaire anti-apartheid qui était, selon ses propres mots, "le premier film sur la situation politique en Afrique du Sud fait d'après un point de vue africain."

1962, 17 minutes, Documentaire.

Réal : Lionel Ngakane

Ngakane's first film was this short anti-apartheid documentary, which was, in his own words, "the first film about the political situation in South Africa made from an African's point of view."

Dir: Lionel Ngakane

1962, 17 minutes, Documentary

"His first film, a documentary titled VUKANI/AWAKE (1962), deals with man's inhumanity to man, depicting the evils of apartheid and the predicament of black people in South Africa."
- Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike, QUESTIONING AFRICAN CINEMA

2011 - Anthology Film Archives (New York) - April 2011
* This screening is part of: UNITED WE STAND: SOUTH AFRICAN CINEMA DURING APARTHEID
Réal : Lionel Ngakane