Kgabo’s films spark conversation about social ills
Kgabo Legodi is a Steam ambassador that does free cinema screening in communities showing films and documentaries that address social issues.
POLOKWANE – Kgabo Legodi uses films and documentaries to spark conversations about social ills.
Legodi is a Science Technology Engineering Arts Mathematics (Steam) ambassador who’s passionate about making a change in her community. She is a film impact facilitator for Sunshine Cinema under the University of Cape Town Centre for Film and Studies.
She does free cinema screening using a Sunbox mobile solar cinema kit at schools, community organisations, churches and community halls showing films and documentaries that address social issues like teenage pregnancy, unsafe abortions and bullying.
On August 30 she hosted a session in Moletjie at Bakwena Secondary School, an abandoned school used to host and facilitate extra lessons, matric rewrites and community workshops as well as other related opportunities that benefits the youth.
Legodi explained that she was invited by the Boys and Girls Educational Foundation. She showed the film Thando which is about a girl whose life is hanging by a thread.
“Her entire community is the epitome of gender-based violence (GBV), peer pressure, bullying and socio-economic challenges. She meets an older man who introduces her to the finer things in life. Her affair with her ‘blesser’ crumbles when she falls pregnant, but it’s the viral video of her being bullied at school that sends her completely over the edge,” explained Legodi.
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She added that this was a great film to screen because it touches on social issues that are often not spoken about.
Sunbox is one of the Sunshine Cinema’s tools used to train youth to be impact producers, hosting free film screenings on mini solar powered cinema kits, promoting the local film industry.
She further explained that the Sunshine Cinema learnership programme consists 20 participants from across the country and she is representing the province as an ambassador trained to use these screenings to spark dialogue, educate, and inspire social change on issues of conservation, migration, land, gender equality and active citizenship working alongside civil society and policymakers.
