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The programme for The Apollo Weekend Film Show is now finalised and boasts an impressive array of films totalling twenty. The twenty films are made up of nine
documentaries, eight animated short films, one short film and two feature length films. The
nine documentaries are broken down into six short shot doccies; three short films from the Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking tackles the safeguarding of the environment and provide an understanding and appreciation of the arts and youth in South Africa through music.
Guardian of the Ocean is a remarkable story of of Althea Westphal who used her home to take in injured penguins after the Esso Essen oil spill in the late 1960s and established an
organisation to protect and rehabilitate these heart-warming sea birds in her own backyard; Differently Abled is about an 13 year old blind boy named Danito that is a
multi-talented inspirational musician at the Durban music school, a surfer and technology
fanatic. He is, by simply living life as he knows it, showing all able and disable' people that
capability and ability is only determined by determination and mental attitude; Music in the Mountains (Drakensberg Boys Choir) explores the journey of 12 year old musician
Sihle Manonyane who joined the Drakensberg Boys Choir School in 2016 and was the first to gain concert status, where the new boys at the school have to pass 25 music tests to join the concert choir and wear the iconic blue and jabot uniform. The film shows how the school prepares young boys to transition to be great gentlemen through music.
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Masquerading to Hell and Back by Sofia de Fay has recently won second prize in the Youth Jury Award at Encounters. Masquerading or impersonating a woman during Apartheid, was considered an illegal offense and punishable with six months hard labour in prison in South Africa. This story follows two Cape Coloured drag queens, Sandra and Samantha who were both locked up and sentenced to hard labour. The two eccentric, hilarious and stylish drag queens reflect on their complex friendship and remember with humour some tragic moments.
Heleen Van Tonder's Heuegenise van n Vrou is a timeless poetic story beautifully captured by her tells about the life's journey of a 50's woman from her earliest childhood memories, all the way to the day her entire life changed in her forties, when her husband died. In between is a collection of: giving not only a highly personal insight to her world, but also conveying a sense of what life was like at that time. Through a single story, we gain a sense of what countless other women's lives must have been very similar to. It's a story about women's strength: silent, deep, and forever loving.
I Want To See For Myself by Fanyane Hlabangane is a short documentary based on human
rights activist Arthur Ashe, who was also the first black tennis player ever to win the singles
title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open who vehemently opposed
Apartheid segregation in 70s South Africa. In 1970, when Ashe was the top-ranked American in the game, he was denied a visa when he wanted to take part in the South African Open, he then called for South Africa's expulsion from the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the Davis Cup. Ashe received lots of support, successfully drawing the world's attention to the iniquity of South Africa's former political system. His actions also lent weight to a number of other sporting codes imposing sanctions against South Africa. Ashe was later granted a visa and thus fulfilling his wish of playing in South Africa. He became the first black man to play in the South African Open. During this time he met a lot of township youth, many of which who saw him as a hero. He later donated funds to build the Arthur Ashe Tennis Centre in Soweto.
The Centre would later give birth to the Soweto Open. The film is about breaking barriers,
political, social or personal, it's about the triumph of the human spirit.
Michael Van Niekerk's 40 minute documentary; Free Education The Story of Bonginkosi Khanyile chronicles the events of the #FeesMustFall movement from the perspective of Durban University of Technology student Bonginkosi Khanyile, who inadvertently became one of the movement's significant faces after being arrested and detained for nearly six months. The film provides an incisive critique of the struggle for free, quality and decolonised education.
The feature length documentary that will screen on the first day of the film show is
Eerstewater made by the trio of Helene Smit, Adriaan De La Rey and Lodewyk Barkhuzein. This strange and remarkable film is both a portrait of a community and a psychological treatise of sorts. Based on the book Beneath - Exploring the Unconscious in Individuals, the film intersperses narrated passages from the book with intimately filmed interviews with a small group of residents of Prince Albert, in the Western Cape. Framed by the austere beauty of the Karoo and its vast, unyielding sky, the film's conversations explore notions of love, philosophy, belief systems and family, as well as our relationship to the land, animals and each other. With a soundtrack performed live by its subjects, this is a profoundly spiritual
work of art. Eerstewater expands the margins of South African life and gives agency to voices that are seldom heard in local cinema.
The second and final feature length doccie; Martin Jansen's Freedom Isnt Free: The Freedom Charter Today, challenges the ANC government with its failure to bring into being the words and resolutions of the Freedom Charter. Using excellent archival footage, intercut from that past into the present and informative commentary by new and older generations, the film demonstrates that f
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