Richard Moor – 5mins
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Individual Documentary at the 2010 Roxbury Doc Film Fest
A harrowing story of two brothers who have been moulded through prison, torture and life on the streets into a life of crime and drug abuse in Grahamstown.
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Laura Wener – 5min
‘All the world is a village’ looks at being Jewish in the small town – ‘village’ -of Grahamstown. We hear from Sian Cohen, a Jewish student living out her Judaism despite difficulties and challenges. We take a journey back in time with former Jewish community leader and mayor of Grahamstown, Leon Reich who shares his stories of what Jewish life once was in Grahamstown.
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Sibongile Mafu – 5min
Black rugby in this country is struggling with transformation. Young, black players with promising futures have their careers cut short due to a lack of opportunity. This documentary looks at rugby through the eyes of an ex rugby player and rugby lover who has many things to say about the game in South Africa.
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Kyla Herrmannsen – 5min
In life bad situations can be salvaged by good people. My Borrowed Son follows a day in the life of Margaret and her foster son, Kwekwe, who was abused by his father as a baby and was taken in by Margaret. We look at their special bond.
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Zikhona Tshona – 5min
As people we tend not to appreciate difference but discriminate against people who are not like us. This is a story about albanism and how this has given a local man the strength and courage to face those who belittle him.
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Phumzile Manana – 5min
A documentary on the anxiety disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). We explore the frustrations of the disorder through the experience of a young woman.
Tamzyn Degoumois – 5min
Phoenix follows ex-crack cocaine addict Gavin Pearson through his emotional and psychological journey at a rehabilitation centre. Through this process Gavin is trying to pull himself back from the brink, take what he can from his mistakes and move on to strive to live better.
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Anesu Chingono – 5min
Propolis is a resin that is collected by bees from the saps of plants and trees to protect their hives against any unwanted bacteria. Propolis is now being extracted by humans for medicinal uses. Research has shown that Propolis, labeled by some as a “natural anti-biotic”, heals a variety of sicknesses from HIV eczema, gout, arthritis, peptic ulcers, to colds and flu’s. Is this the new wonder drug that will finally replace anti-biotics?
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Nontobeko Sibisi
In Zulu tradition, when a woman turns 21 and has not disappointed her family or brought their name into disrepute she receives uMemulo from her mother in recognition of her successful passage to maturity. We follow Nomzamo through her coming of age ceremony.
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You are warmly invited to the 5th RUTV Documentary Film Fest on Wednesday 20th of October at the Roxbury Cinema. Last year’s festival packed all three cinemas of the Roxbury and this year’s is sure to do the same.
The festival showcases the final productions of the final year television students in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University.
They promise a diverse programme of long form documentaries and a selection of individual 5 minute documentaries. The evening allows you to sit back and enjoy insightful, provocative and entertaining productions filmed in locations around South Africa and some close to home.
The 5th Documentary Film festival will include a very intimate insight into the stories of issue of ex-offenders and re-integration in rural Kwazulu Natal, a disturbing new wave of an addictive toxic drug issue in Durban, and an extraordinary insight into the lives of Somali refugees in the Eastern Cape. The short individual films explore a range of characters and issues that will be remembered.
All the documentaries will be posted here soon!!!
Investigative documentary – 10min
Produced by Paul Harris, Kyla Herrmannsen, Nontobeko Sibisi & Laura Wener
The South African education system is in trouble. Falling pass rates, teacher shortages and a desperate lack of educational resources are common. Learners are failing to cope with school.
‘An Education Imagined’ looks at the Quintile System designed to right the wrongs of Apartheid education. Many feel it has made inequalities worse. Complex processes and government incompetency makes education outcomes unrealistic.
Through investigative journalism we examine the system in schools in Grahamstown and expose several flaws. While government officials sit in their offices and pass on the blame to others it is the learners who continue to suffer.
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Investigartive documentary – 10min
Produced by Camalita Naicker, Gregory Aldridge, Katherine V Robinson & Zikhona Tshona
Ravaged Retribution examines the consequences of the lack of conviction of rape in South Africa. We look at cases in which angry communities take the law into their own hands and resort to mob justice in reaction to a flawed justice system. This induces a woeful and vicious cycle of revenge and retribution. We see how communities in Grahamstown and East London have used mob violence in order to seek justice in cases of rape
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Investigative documentary – 10min
Produced by Phumzile Manana, Robyn McCormick, Tamzyn Degoumois
In Versaak (Forsaken) we expose the human suffering caused by neglect and incompetence of those who have power but no will to serve their people. We examine the community of Rosedale in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape established as a coloured township during the Apartheid regime and little has change since.. While much of South Africa is reaping the rewards of democracy Rosedale has been forsaken by the government and left to deteriorate.
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Investigative documentary – 10min
Produced by Anesu Chingono, Jess Levy. Richard Moor, Sibongile Mafu
We investigate cases of misconduct and crime by members of the Grahamstown Police. It looks at why the police- the very people we put our faith in to protect us are in fact hurting us. The documentary unravels the story of two young men who were at the wrong end of police violence. It portrays a young man’s struggle for justice and another family’s quest for answers as to why the police violently murdered one of their family members.
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Paul Harris, Kyla Herrmannsen, Nontobeko Sibisi & Laura Wener
Jenny du Plessis is a 40 year old, unemployed mother who lives in Grahamstown. She faces many struggles in her daily life; she is HIV positive and diagnosed with cervical cancer. These illnesses make her too sick to work and as a result she struggles to support her 6 year old daughter, Hope.
Despite her situation and her multiple attempts to get a disability grant, Jenny is still without one and relies solely on the child grant she receives of R240 a month. We explore this violation of her rights from her perspective and what this means in her day to day living. Hope is the centre of her universe and provides Jenny with a reason to live and fight her ailments. We follow her daily struggle to support Hope.
Gregory Aldridge, Camalita Naicker, Katherine Robinson & Zikhona Tshona
Linda Anthony, whose human rights were violated by six men who beat her up until she was unconscious, tells how she is using her experience to make others smile.
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