Dylan Valley

Dylan Valley is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and lecturer at the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 2013, he received a Pulitzer Fellowship from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he received his Master’s in Specialized Journalism. Dylan has directed various documentaries for South African and international television, namely the award-winning Afrikaaps (2010) and The Uprising of Hangberg (2010). He has also directed two documentary films for Al Jazeera Arabic. In January 2020, his virtual reality documentary Azibuye – The Occupation premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2020, he also served on the Frontlight selection committee for the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). His latest project, No Place But Here, premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2023 and has since been shown at festivals around the world.