Koto Bolofo is a South African film director and photographer born in 1959 and raised in Great Britain after his family was forced to flee as political refugees. Bolofo's father, a history teacher, was found to have writings by Karl Marx among his teaching materials and was exiled for his supposed "communist practices". After nearly 25 years away son and father returned to South Africa, which Koto documented in his short film The Land is White, The Seed is Black.

His film work has garnered several awards and featured at a variety of festivals, including the Berlin International Film Festival, the BBC British Short Film Festival, Amnesty International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, Cambridge Film Festival and Cape Town International Film Festival.

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