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Zulu love letter / JBA Production & Natives at Large present a coproduction Hollybell (South Africa) [and others] ; produced by Jacques Bidou [and others] ; a screenplay by Bhekizizwe Peterson, Ramadan Suleman ; directed by Ramadan Suleman.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women journalists--South Africa--Drama.
- Women journalists.
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism--Drama.
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
- Parents of deaf children--Drama.
- Parents of deaf children.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder--Drama.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- South Africa.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (100 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2004.
- Language Note:
- In English and Zulu with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Opening shot: a woman is discovered passed out in her car. Next she is in an ambulance having a flashback to the time of South Africa's State of Emergency 13 years ago, a period of maximum police repression. Third sequence: the woman, now in the hospital, assures her skeptical, deaf daughter that she will be recovered in time for her birthday. Fourth scene, she again slips into a flashback where she, a journalist accompanied by a photographer, documents a young student chased and shot by the police; her last word is Amandla! 'the power is ours!' This pattern of narrative interrupted by flashback continues throughout Zulu Love Letter* until finally the reporter, Thandeka Khumalo, succeeds in bringing these two narratives, the nightmare of the apartheid past and the hope of the new South Africa, together so to create a chance to move on with her life. A Zulu love letter or incuwadi yothando is a beadwork necklace; throughout the film Mangi is seen working on a collage which is her modern interpretation of this traditional art form.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 01, 2017).
- Won 2006 Mar del Plata Film Festival, 'Red de Cine de Derechos Humanos' Award - Special Mention
- Won 2005 Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival, Best Actress
- OCLC:
- 745468825
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