Joni Els 5min
Life as a paranoid schizophrenic. An evocative portrait of someone diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. This piece shows the unsettling yet beautiful nature of everyday life, as told by an out patient from the Fort England Hospital of Grahamstown.
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Xoli Matomela 5min
A look inside the world of a lady who has given her life to the oldest profession. This story comes completely from her, a stream of conscioiusness, a diary entry, an unravelling of how she has come undone.
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Anthony Andrews 5min
When most people think about celibacy, if at all, they think of deprivation, like choosing to not eat a very good piece of chocolate cake. Even if you don’t think of it that way perhaps you try to rationalise or understand it using another metaphor. This is to be expected since most of us try to understand new concepts using a metaphor in our own mental archive, or at least that’s what the psychologists tell us. This short film tries to understand celibacy using a new and different metaphor, one which you might not agree with but one which might help you understand this strange and possibly new concept. It is a positive metaphor, one which tries to explain what celibacy is and not what it is devoid of. Along the way you will meet two marvellous people who put faces to the concepts and metaphors.
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Gabrielle Gray 5min
Wanda Fourie is a female body builder from East London, South Africa. Competing in a typically “masculine” sport not only has the physical effects that one would expect, but takes its it toll on all aspects of one’s life. Wanda gives insight into her daily routine as she prepares for the Border Body Building competition, a run-up to the South African National competition. As we follow her progress, we discover how body-building has ultimately changed Wanda’s life…for the better.
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Dan Calderwood 5min
‘We hope we have mercy’ is a short documentary highlighting one of the many areas of ‘The Zimbabwean Crisis’ which often goes unnoticed. Zimbabwe’s black and white rhinos are being poached to near extinction by the people in power. This is the shocking story of man’s greed and the awful repercussions to a once flourishing nation’s wildlife. It is about both the rhino and the many people involved in fighting for this species survival, for “what is man without the beast?”
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Ashleigh Nash, Joni Els & Hayley Mueller at the Sun City Awards
Ashleigh Nash describes her award winning night.
The annual SABC News Awards were held at Sun City in the North West province on Saturday, 13 September. As a nominee in the student category of ‘TV Current Affairs’ I was lucky enough to be invited to represent the Rhodes Journalism TV department and my crew for the weekend.
Rhodes Journalism had a strong presence at the awards with two of my television classmates nominated in the same category. From the moment we arrived, we felt like celebrities, having our own rooms and a personal chauffeur. The fact that this was a golf cart driver whom we paid to drive us a mere 1km made no difference. We were queens of the Lost City, where we found our childhood again by making waves on the lazy river and screaming down the dark tarantula slide. Although our time was interspersed with a rehearsal and a run though of the event, we had to admit that the awards were the reason we were there! (more…)