Voices… of filmmakers in the South African movie industry deal with future of the national sector. issues of South African movie genre, progresses, obstacles and ways of finding a place in the globalization.
The majors goals of the documentary are to open the mind of filmmakers (and french filmmakers) about on one side, the challenges that other people faced towards making moving pictures, and on the other side arouse interest about differents ways of thinking films.
Furthermore, South African cinema is mostly known in english spoken countries. The director modestly want to counterbalance this fact and to give an access to french professionals, film-goers, academics to a rich and diverse foreign cinematography.
Voices is an academic documentary directed and produced alongside a Phd in the Science Political Institute of Bordeaux in France. The topic of the thesis in french is the impacts of democratization on a cultural sector : the case of the South African film industry after apartheid.
A film by Joachim Landau
2012, Documentary, South Africa, 52mins
Released 2012
by Filmakers Library
starring Terry Tselane, Belinda Van Heerden, Tendeka Matatu, Nico Dekker, Matshepo Maja, Bridget Pickering, Dr. Melanie Chait, Marcel Carsle, Rehad Desai, Paul Zisiwe, Neiloe Khunyeli, Mike Dearham, Marie-Blanche Knill, Edouard Knill, AOC
Directed and produced by Joachim Landau
Related Subjects: 2013-2014, New Films, African Studies, Film