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A propos du court "Ubuntu's Wounds"
avril 2002 | | Cinéma/TV | Afrique du Sud
Source : Screen Africa
Français
La National Film & Video Foundation a justifié face aux attaques son financement du court métrage Ubuntu's Wounds.
Ce film raconte la revanche d'un homme déçu par la Commission Vérité et Réconciliation et qui rend justice lui-même lorsqu'il rencontre l'assassin de sa femme.
English
Eddie Mbalo, CEO of the National Film & Video Foundation (NFVF) says that the funding the NFVF provided for Sechaba Morojele's short film, Ubuntu's Wounds has been well justified.
The film recently won the best short film award at the Pan African Film Festival. Ubuntu's Wounds tells the story of one man's disappointment with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and how he takes justice into his own hands when he meets the killer of his wife.
Marojele (Tsaba Tsaba in Going Up and Mr. Mahlatsi in Yizo Yizo and wrote scripts for Kelebone, Soul City, Generations and Isidingo) started the project as a student at the American Film Institute but lacked funds to shoot it as a 35mm film. The NFVF had already funded Morejele's studies and decided to help fund his film as well.
"We believed the project had merit, in that it offered a fresh approach to a South African theme, and we had confidence it would have international appeal," says Mbalo.
The film has garnered further accolades at CineQuest in San Jose and Harvey Mudd College. Marojele will also be taking the film the Rakumi, San Francisco, Calgary, Atlanta and Newport Beach festivals.
He is currently working on a South African film about corporate South Africa as well as two other films that are based in the USA.
Marojele (Tsaba Tsaba in Going Up and Mr. Mahlatsi in Yizo Yizo and wrote scripts for Kelebone, Soul City, Generations and Isidingo) started the project as a student at the American Film Institute but lacked funds to shoot it as a 35mm film. The NFVF had already funded Morejele's studies and decided to help fund his film as well.
"We believed the project had merit, in that it offered a fresh approach to a South African theme, and we had confidence it would have international appeal," says Mbalo.
The film has garnered further accolades at CineQuest in San Jose and Harvey Mudd College. Marojele will also be taking the film the Rakumi, San Francisco, Calgary, Atlanta and Newport Beach festivals.
He is currently working on a South African film about corporate South Africa as well as two other films that are based in the USA.
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