Cleaning the Cut (6 Jun, JHB)
Ed Wes
Panelist
A film producer, cinematographer, photographer, and teacher with extensive experience in documentary and TV production. He has shot over 100 documentaries for local and international broadcasters.
Enver Samuel
Panelist
A director and producer known for powerful storytelling and commitment to justice whose award winning dcumentries and series have explored unresolved cases from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The assassination of Dulcie September, aand prifiles on anti-apartheid activists Ahmed Timol.
Kerryn Assaizky
Panelist
A filmmaker and editor specialising in documentary storytelling, archival research, and narrative-driven post-production, whose work focuses on complex human stories and South African social history.
Pat Van Heerden
Panelist
A filmmaker, commissioning editor and channel head in public broadcasting, specialising in content development and strategy, whose work is driven by an engagement with history, politics, and storytelling as a tool for public and civic connection.
Khalid Shamis
Moderator
An editor and educator, director and producer with a film-making practice over 20 years. His practice is strongly dedicated to the pedagogy of independent filmmaking and story construction in Africa.
Patience Nitumwesiga
Panelist
An award winning film director whose work includes precolonial values, death, African utopianism, and gender deconstruction. Her documentary debut The Woman Who Poked The Leopard, which places a humanist lens upon one of Africa’s most iconic political prisoners, premiered at Dok Leipzig and IDFA.