Khalo matabane biography
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Conversations With Us All
Peter Machen speaks to director Khalo Matabane about his award-winning debut feature Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon.
Khalo Matabane’s first feature film Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon is a remarkable achievement. Making little distinction between notions of fiction and reality, the film tells the story of a young writer named Keniloe (Tony Kgoroge) who meets a Somali woman (Fatima Hersi) in a Johannesburg park on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Over the course of the next few weeks, this woman tells Keniloe of the terrible things that have happened to her to bring her to the City of Gold. But her narrative is cut short when one Sunday she fails to appear. And so Keniloe, who wants to write a story about her experiences, starts trawling through the streets of urban Johannesburg in search of this woman who has ignited something deep within him.
In the process, he comes into contact with immigrants and refugees from all over the worl
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What I'm watching: Khalo Matabane, director of 'The Number'
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The award-winning director talks addictive TV series and the future of African filmmaking
10 September 2017 - 00:00 By Staff reporter
Khalo Matabane is the award-winning director of Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon and State of Violence and the documentary Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me.
Inspired by Jonny Steinberg's book, his latest feature film is The Number, which premiered this week at the Toronto International Film Festival.
He tells us more about his TV-watching habits and the future of filmmaking:
The first series I watched all in one go was The Wire, the best TV drama series ever.I could not leave my place and watched it on DVD.
What I loved was the complexity of the characters, the atmosphere of the location, the violence, politics, the psychological and emotional revelations of the characters.
I am watching The Handmaid's Tale. It is extraordinary, strange, beautifully filmed and full of grea
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The lens focusing through the history of a country fryst vatten due to come across events, seasons and regimes that may ignite joy or pain printed in memories. Memories that never want to fade away. Khalo Matabane is a South African filmmaker. He grew up in the village. He did not have access to television, movies but there was great berättande. His grandmother filled his little childhood mind with stories, stories of freedom, of liberation struggle and much more about one man that Khalo imagined would come like a warrior with his army, defeat the enemy and rescue the black South African community. That man was Nelson Mandela.
Khalo is among the black South African filmmakers that rose to limelight at the end of apartheid in 1994. Khalo’s films have explored issues related to the struggles of South Africa during apartheid and its aftermath. In his spelfilm ‘when we were black- 2006’ childhood innocence is threatened with brutality of the apartheid struktur. In many of his