Bolobathaba Multimedia invited to Uganda
Award winning television news and current affairs producer, video journalist and documentary film maker and founder of Bolobathaba Multimedia, Molatelo Mainetja(41) among filmmakers invited to attend the seven day Niles's Diaspora International Film Festival (NDIFF) in Uganda from the 17-23 December.
She is best known for her documentary ‘Womb-man’, as well as ‘Block 5’.
“I am currently residing between Johannesburg and Block 5 and each time I visit Block 5, I am greeted by the struggles of my people, I literally remotely directed the rest of the documentary constantly on the phone from Johannesburg, and a group of film trainee students from my film school shot and produced it” she stated.
“Block 5 is a village just outside Tzaneen where I was born and the village never had water, still no roads and no clinic, 22 years into democracy, the ANC has failed its people and the people of my village”, said Molatelo.
The idea that sparked this film came to her when her neighbor walked into her home last year July was a silver kettle in her hand and started asked for water as she did not even have a single drop of water at there house.
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