Local film impresses at box office
The film, written by Kaye Ann Williams and Margaret Goldsmid, was created by a team of women, with acclaimed filmmaker Roberta Durrant as director and producer.
THE local film, Krotoa released earlier this month has already been seen by more than 8000 viewers at more than 25 cinemas across the country. The film about a Khoi woman who served as a translator for the Dutch during the founding of the Cape Colony has already earned nearly half a million at the box office. Krotoa tells the story about a feisty, bright, young 11-year old girl (played by Charis Williams) who is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck (Armand Aucamp), her uncle’s trading partner.
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She is brought into the first Fort, established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman, who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential interpreter for van Riebeeck, who became the first Governor of the Cape Colony.
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Krotoa (Crystal-Donna Roberts) ends up being rejected by her own Khoi people and destroyed by the Dutch, when she tries to find the middle way between the two cultures. She loses everything.
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The film, written by Kaye Ann Williams and Margaret Goldsmid, was created by a team of women, with acclaimed filmmaker Roberta Durrant as director and producer.
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