Filmmaking and editing in particular can be seen as something closer to healing than to art-making. To take fragmented footage, disparate voices, broken chronologies, and shape them into coherent meaning is not so different from what the human psyche does in the long aftermath of trauma: it searches for narrative, for sequence, for the moment when chaos becomes story. The editor, in this light, is not merely a craftsperson but a witness, someone who sits with difficult material long enough to find what is worth preserving, and what must be let go. Documentary practice especially carries this reparative potential, offering communities, individuals, and histories the dignity of being seen on their own terms. The edit becomes a kind of binding, gently holding the fragile edges together with enough care so that something whole, and honest, can finally emerge.
About This Event
Guests
Ed Wes
Panelist
A film producer, cinematographer, photographer, and teacher with extensive experience in documentary and television production. He has shot over 100 documentaries for local and international broadcasters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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