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DESCRIPTION:Conversations Across the African Diaspora w/ Filmmaker & Director Xoliswa 
 Sithole \n\nHost: Sarah Ladipo Manyika\n\nFebruary 12, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 
 1:00 pm\n\nCost: FREE or donation\n\nInfo & RSVP: 
 https://www.moadsf.org/event/conversations-across-the-diaspora-with-guest-xoliswa-sithole/\n\n\nXoliswa 
 Sithole is a producer and director who makes films mainly about women and 
 children, with a focus on justice, human rights, and poverty. She is the 
 director of Nayanaya Pictures. \n\nXoliswa started out her film career as 
 an actress in anti-apartheid films like Cry Freedom and Mandela. She 
 subsequently worked as a researcher for CNN and the BBC in South Africa. In 
 2001, she produced the award-winning documentary, Shouting Silent (shown on 
 Showtime America), which explored the vulnerabilities of young girls who 
 had lost their mothers to HIV/AIDS, having lost her own mother in this way. 
 \n\nXoliswa also worked as the South African producer on a film about the 
 Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy; directed and produced A Ribbon in the 
 Sky, a documentary for MNET about the effects of poverty on women with 
 disabilities; and produced a documentary on Nelson Mandela called Projek 
 Mandela.  In 2005 she produced Orphans of Inkandla for which she won her 
 first BAFTA Award and an International Emmy Nomination.\n\nOther of her 
 films include a June 2010 documentary with True Vision for Channel 4 called 
 South Africa’s Lost Girls and a documentary for the BBC, shot entirely 
 undercover, called Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children which won a Peabody and 
 BAFTA awards and won best documentary at BANFF.  \n\nXoliswa also produced 
 and directed a project in Zimbabwe called Child of the Revolution which 
 took her 9 years to complete. She produced and directed Standing on Their 
 Shoulders a feminist documentary on the 1956 women’s march in SA and its 
 domino effect on black women’s activism till present day. Some of the 
 documentaries went on to become IMPACT Films. \n\nAt present she is 
 directing a documentary called We Shall not Die Quietly which looks at how 
 the Global South (India, Brazil, Thailand and South Africa) fought for 
 cheaper medicines for HIV/AIDS spearheaded by SA and asks ‘are poor 
 people going to fight for a cheaper COVID 19 vaccine?\n\n\nHOST: Sarah 
 Ladipo Manyika\n\nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived 
 in Kenya, France, Zimbabwe, and England. Sarah is a novelist, short story 
 writer, and essayist and founding books editor for Ozy.com. Her debut 
 novel, In Dependence, is an international bestseller while her second 
 novel, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, has been translated into 
 a number of languages. Her nonfiction includes personal essays and intimate 
 profiles of people she meets from Mrs. Harris and Pastor Evan Mawarire to 
 Toni Morrison, Margaret Busby and Michelle Obama. Sarah previously served 
 on MoAD’s board and currently serves as Board President for the women’s 
 writing residency, Hedgebrook. Sarah is a fellow of the Royal Society of 
 Arts, a San Francisco Public Library Laureate, and a member of the National 
 Books Critics 
 Circle.\n_______________________________________________________________\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/02/05/18839770.php
SUMMARY:Conversations Across the African Diaspora w/ Filmmaker & Director Xoliswa Sithole (MOAD)
LOCATION:Online speaker event
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/02/05/18839770.php
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