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Drum (2004 Film)
''Drum'' is a 2004 film based on the life of South African investigative journalist Henry Nxumalo, who worked for ''Drum (South African magazine), Drum'' magazine, called "the first black lifestyle magazine in Africa". It was director Zola Maseko's first film and deals with the issues of apartheid and the forced removal of residents from Sophiatown. The film was originally to be a six-part television series called ''Sophiatown Short Stories'', but Maseko could not get the funding. The lead roles of Henry Nxumalo and ''Drum'' main photographer Jürgen Schadeberg were played by American actors Taye Diggs and Gabriel Mann, while most of the rest of the cast were South African actors. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2004, and did the rounds of international film festivals before going on general release in South Africa in July 2006. It was released in Europe, but failed to get a distributor for the USA where it went straight to DVD. The fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zola Maseko
Zola Maseko (born 1967) is a Swazi film director and screenwriter. He is noted for his documentary films related to xenophobia. Biography Maseko was born in exile in 1967 and educated in Swaziland (now Eswatini) and Tanzania. After moving to the United Kingdom, he graduated from the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield in 1994. Maseko's first film was the documentary ''Dear Sunshine'', released in 1992. He participated in several uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla campaigns. He moved to South Africa in 1994 and wrote ''The Foreigner'', a short fiction film about xenophobia in this country. In 1996, after Maseko drove to his house, an unknown assailant pointed a gun at the director and fired twice. He fled after the gun did not fire. A few minutes later, he called his house, and the assailant was on the phone. He "thought aseko wasa foreigner. We are a vigilante group going around killing foreigners. We don't want them here." In 1998 he directed ''The Life and Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |