The Documentary Filmmakers Association in collaboration with the @ecfilmhub and Cortex Hub in KuGompo City invites you to this month's free docLOVE screening of IGUALADA. The screening will be followed by a special Q&A session.
Date: 28th May 2026 2PM - 5PM.
Venue: Film Hub - 33 Church St, East London Cbd, KuGompo City.
About the film:
In Colombia, a nation marred by profound racial and socio-economic disparities, a black woman from a rural background challenges the status quo by launching a presidential campaign. Reappropriating the term ‘igualada’, Francia Márquez catapults a movement to the upper echelons of power by refusing to ‘know her place’. Fifteen years in the making, this documentary peels back the curtain on how unprecedented change can happen.
Director: Juan Mejia Botero
Duration: 1 hr 21 minutes
🎬 Partner Spotlight | docLOVE Screening: CAPTURING WATER 💧
Our partners at docLOVE and the Documentary Filmmakers Association, in collaboration with The Bioscope Independent Cinema, invite audiences to a special FREE screening of CAPTURING WATER on Sunday, 31 May 2026.
📍 The Bioscope Independent Cinema
📅 Sunday, 31 May 2026
🕑 14h00 SAST
🎟️ Reserve your seat by purchasing a R20 Café Voucher, redeemable at the Bioscope Café on the day.
Directed by Rehad Desai and Anita Khanna, CAPTURING WATER explores the fight for water justice in South Africa through the stories of activists challenging water privatisation, environmental destruction, and failing infrastructure.
As part of docLOVE’s monthly screening series, the event will also feature an interactive discussion following the film.
Learn more about the Documentary Filmmakers Association here: DFA South Africa
#PartnerSpotlight #docLOVE #CapturingWater #DocumentaryFilm #AfricanStorytelling #WaterJustice
We're live and direct @ngamaandaawe_film_festival_ in Tshwane! @afda_hatfield_clva what an amazing campus!
Join us for films and masterclasses from 10am all the way till 6pm today and tomorrow.
Thank you @envermicheal for your time, passion and art!
#lovefilm
A reminder that DFA docYOUTH will be hosting the second edition of the @ngamaandaawe_film_festival_ tomorrow and Friday. Our lovely speakers will be speaking on navigating the industry with your first films across four different venues!
Bloemfontein, Pretoria, Gqeberha, Makhanda and Cape Town - come to @ngamaandaawe_film_festival_ on the 23rd and 24th from 10am to 6pm on both days. TICKETS: bit.ly/NGAMAANDA
See you there!
Meet our Friday speaker discussing the art of Documentary this Friday!! 🍿🎉👏🏾11am at the University of Free State Tickets available on quicket!
Charlene Stanley is passionate about telling stories of inspirational humans - that inspire humans.
On most projects, she does her own directing and video editing, as she believes personal connection, pacing and rhythm are essential elements of documentary storytelling.
She prefers working as part of a micro crew, with minimal impact on case studies’ lives.
Charlene holds two law degrees from the University of the Free State (B Iuris and LLB).
Instead of pursuing a legal career though, she concluded early on that a quest for justice can be equally well served in journalism – while at the same time allowing her to pursue a passion for stories and a deep interest in the creative power of the audio-visual medium.
She currently has close to thirty years’ experience in television production - first as a news and current affairs journalist for SABC and e.tv, and later as a documentary producer for Sabido Productions – eMedia’s prestige documentary unit that produced stories from the African continent.
Charlene and her videographer husband Eddie have won several awards for their work – including 3 national awards in the Vodacom Journalist of the Year competition, and a Golden Panda Documentary Award at the Sichuan Film Festival in China.
In 2025 she was a SAFTA finalist in both the Short Documentary and Documentary Directing categories. Documentaries she has produced have been shown at international film festivals, like the Sheffield DocFest and the Sondrio Film Festival, as well as locally at the Durban Film Festival, the kykNET Silwerskerm Festival and the Free State Arts Festival.
Since 2015, she has been co-director of the Bloemfontein based production company Storytown Productions. The company has just been awarded a SAFTA for Best Children’s Programme for their inspiring youth documentary series “Behind the Rainbow” on SABC2.
Charlene believes in finding stories in your own backyard first. And that true stories – if beautifully told - have the power to change the world.
We are proud to present A Nation’s Fight for Identity and Justice documentary directed by Kgothatso Mothata. Nominated for a special award at This years second edition of the DFA DocYouth Nga Maanda Awe Film Festival.
A Nation’s Fight for Identity and Justice documentary explores how boxing became a symbol of resistance and dignity for marginalised communities during and after apartheid. Through the voices of fighters and trainers, the film traces the sport’s cultural impact and its decline in modern South Africa. The documentary reflects on a powerful legacy and what it means today
Screening this week!! 23rd and 24th April Grab your Free tickets today🍿🎬
https://www.quicket.co.za/events/368264-dfa-nga-maanda-awe-film-festival/?utm_source=EventPage&utm_medium=Sharebox&utm_campaign=&ref=event-page-share
A fantatsic turn out at this past weekend docLOVE screening in Cape Town. Thank you to filmmaker Enver Samuels, our knowledgable panelists and the incredible docLOVE Team.
We have even more screenings this coming week all over the country.
Joburg it's your turn on the 27th of April at 2pm @thebioscope . TICKETS: bit.ly/3OmsBle
Bloemfontein, Pretoria, Gqeberha, Makhanda and Cape Town - come to @ngamaandaawe_film_festival_ on the 23rd and 24th from 10am to 6pm on both days. TICKETS: bit.ly/NGAMAANDA
See you there!
#docLOVE #LOVESAFILM
We are proud to present The Nights Were Velvet nominated for a special award at This years second edition of the DFA DocYouth Nga Maanda Awe Film Festival
Screening this week!! 23rd and 24th April Grab your Free tickets today🍿🎬
https://www.quicket.co.za/events/368264-dfa-nga-maanda-awe-film-festival/?utm_source=EventPage&utm_medium=Sharebox&utm_campaign=&ref=event-page-share
As actress Jane Mpholo prepares for an intensely personal solo performance, the boundaries between rehearsal and reality begin to blur. Confronted by echoes of her past, Jane is forced to reckon with buried memories and the unresolved grief surrounding her family. Every line she speaks feels like a confession as Jane discovers that art can be both a mirror and a wound. A meditation on memory, performance, and healing, this intimate short film explores how grief lingers and how creation can become a form of release.
Enver Samuels is a filmmaker focused on lesser-known stories of unsung heroes and heroines of the anti-apartheid struggle. His films include Murder in Paris on the assassination of Dulcie September, Someone to Blame on the re-opening into Ahmed Timol’s 1971 death, and Indians Can’t Fly, narrated by Timol’s nephew. Most recently, he directed Truth be Told, pursuing truth in stories from the TRC. His work uses memory and remembrance to pursue truth and justice.
Fatima Swartz is from the Institute for Healing of Memories, founded in 1998 by Priest Michael Lapsley, who survived a 1990 letter bomb attack. The workshops began alongside the TRC, creating space for people to share their experiences, and later expanded across the country.
Dr. Christie ‘Gogo Bazamile’ Van Zyl is a registered traditional health practitioner and PhD candidate. She offers psychospiritual counselling, supports rites of passage, and facilitates culturally grounded support groups. Her research explores post-traumatic stress linked to the Witchcraft Act of 1957 and its impact on Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, 2024 Templeton Prize Laureate, holds the National Research Foundation Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma and directs AVReQ at Stellenbosch University. Her work returns to the TRC archive, analysing testimonies and extending research on remorse, forgiveness, and “reparative humanism.”
Our other panelists in comments below…
🤖🎬 This weeks docSHARE Webinar: AI and Filmmaking - Creativity vs Code: Is AI Rewriting the Future of Documentary Filmmaking?
🗓 Thursday, 16 April
⏰ 18h00–20h00
ZOOM
🎟 Free for DFA members (Zoom link emailed)
🎟 R50 for non-members – tickets on Quicket. bit.ly/DFAWEBINAR - link in bio
In this discussion we consider how AI is disrupting the documentary filmmaking industry. From conceptualising stories, to writing scripts, to generating video and voices, AI is everywhere. How have filmmakers elsewhere approached the harnessing of AI to recreate histories. What do we need to do to ensure AI is used to benefit filmmakers and not to undermine job opportunities and copyright? We also discuss AI and what it means for the documentary film archive.
Join this thought-provoking conversation. 🌍🎥
Speakers:
✍🏽Amílcar Patel – Film producer, Founder of KAMVA Collective and Co-chair of the South African Screen Federation talks to us about AI policy in Africa.
🎬 Sara Blecher – Award-winning South African director and founder of Real Eyes Films & Safe Sets discusses her own filmmaking using AI to recreate historical figures
🏆 David France – Oscar-nominated filmmaker and investigative journalist behind globally acclaimed documentary ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ talks to us about digital masking to protect identities.
👾Dr Anke Schürer Ries from the university of Bayreuth Germany is working to protect visual archives from AI.
These filmmakers are in discussion with Adwoa Ankoma, attorney and Director of Policy and Research at Electric South, where she champions Africa’s creative and tech sectors through forward-thinking research and strategic policy initiatives. Adwoa has also worked with Wikimedia to advance digital equity and spearheading public policy initiatives for TikTok across Sub-Saharan Africa.
The DFA’s docLOVE and our partners at Bertha House invite you to “Truth be Told” by Enver Micheal Samuel - a powerful series that unpacks cases from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 30 years later through the voices of children of those killed by Apartheid.
“I can’t necessarily explain the trauma that I grew up with because I can’t define it but I always knew that I ‘m a bit of abnormalish, I wanted my space, I didn’t want to interact more with friends”. - Tshidiso Motasi
In this session we will reflect on the TRC archives and find new ways of using Film as a tool for healing.
Details:
Bertha House, 67 Main Road, Mowbray
18 APRIL 2026
12:00 - 15:30 PM
RSVP: https://bit.ly/CPTRSVP (link in bio)
The screening will be followed by a discussion and healing session hosted by:
• Enver Samuels (Director: EMS Productions)
• Fatima Swartz (The institute for the Healing of Memories)
• Christie Van Zyl (Indigenous Health Practitioner: UCT Student Wellness)
• Dr. Anell Stacey Daries (Centre for the Afterlife of violence and the Reparative Quest: Stellenbosch University)
• Undine Whande (Constellation Therapist: TRC)
Episode: Prisoner In my Mind:
Tumelo Richard Motasi was a policeman based at the Hammanskraal Police College. The Northern Transvaal Security Police compiled a file on him which suggested that he was an ANC agent giving sensitive information over to the ANC in Zimbabwe and Johannesburg. The evidence from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Amnesty Hearings, indicates that five Apartheid police officers were sent to eliminate Motasi as he was a threat to the government of the day. On the evening of 1 December 1987, Loots, Hechter, Van Vuuren, Mamasela and the driver Danny Selahle, went to the Motasi home. Mamasela knocked on the Motasi home front door and spoke to Mrs. Irene Motasi who told Mamasela that Motasi was not at home. Mamasela then took Mrs. Motasi and her small child into the bedroom and kept them captive in the bedroom awaiting Motasi. Both Richard and Irene were executed. Five year old Tshidiso was in the home and miraculously survived by hiding in a cupboard…Investigation by the Hawks is still ongoing.
We are thrilled to invite you to April's docLOVE screening at everyoby's favourite cinema in Jozi @thebioscope
Join us for the courageous women-led film "WOMXN WORKING" directed by Shanelle Jewnarian.
The film will be followed by a special Q&A session with the director and team behind the project.
🗓*Date:* 27 April 2026
⏰ *time:* 14h00 - 16h00
📍*Venue:* The Bioscope Independent Cinema, 44 Stanley, Milpark
🎟 *Ticket bookings* (R20): bit.ly/3OmsBle (link in bio)
About the film:
A group of fearless South African sex work activist lead a decades-long fight to reform discriminatory laws while working to protect and dignify sex workers in a country grappling with HIV and gender-based violence.
See you there!
