South African documentary filmmaker and - human rights activist.

Jenny MORGAN is a freelance documentary filmmaker and a part-time human rights activist. These two elements have combined in some of her many films. After leaving apartheid South Africa and moving to London, she supported anti-apartheid mobilizing and worked for the Namibian liberation movement, SWAPO. She has directed and produced numerous films for British television, including "Algeria: Dreaming of Democracy", "A State of Danger" (about the first Palestinian intifada), and "When You Come Back Home "(on Soweto).
Her film about British women agents in World War II, "Behind Enemy Lines: The Real Charlotte Grays", was directed and produced for Channel 4.

OTHER BIO
I left South Africa when it was still an apartheid state; worked initially in London for the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO; then started making films for the BBC. Britain seemed like paradise when I first got here. The women's movement was roaring; anti-colonial and anti-racist movements were blazing; and I seized the chance to reflect some of this on BBC television.

Freelancing took me to Angola, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Algeria, Malawi, China, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and elsewhere.

I've made films about the Wonderful Windsors, menstrual taboos, a South African soccer team called Orlando Pirates, opera in Istanbul, hysterectomy, Abstract Expressionism, the Battle of Cable Street, and many other engrossing and challenging subjects.

Professionally I've written for NGOs like Plan International and Amnesty International.

I have a first-class Honours degree in French and English from what was the University of Natal, Durban, and a diploma in French language and literature from the University of Aix-en-Provence.


Quelle / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
- Africiné Magazine (see the French version: FR)
- https://camouflage.osu.edu/jenny_morgan.html
- https://jennymorganfilmswrites.wordpress.com/about/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 25 June 2023