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Gonarezhou (film)
''Gonarezhou'' is a 2019 Zimbabwean Poaching, anti-poaching awareness film written and directed by Sydney Taivavashe. The film is produced in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority. Premise The film is about a young man called Zulu who suffers various misfortunes and joins a poaching gang. Cast * Tariro Mnangagwa as Sergeant Onai. * Tamy Moyo as Sara. * Tendaiishe Chitima as Thulo * Tinashe Nhukarume as Schoolboy * Eddie Sandifolo as Zulu Release The film was released in 2019. ''Gonarezhou'' was shown at the 2020 Pan African Film Festival. Production In 2017, Sydney announced that he was working on a feature film about poaching and that he started developing the script since 2013. The story was inspired by the killings of 300 elephants by poachers using cyanide in 2013. Principal Photography started in November 2018. References External links * * {{YouTube, id=v=LE5H5cly-kk, title=''trailer for Gonarezhou: The Movie'' 2019 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tariro Mnangagwa
Tariro Mnangagwa (born 1986) is a Zimbabwean actress and conservationist. She is known for her role in the 2020 film ''Gonarezhou''. She is the youngest daughter of current Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa and his first wife Jayne Matarise. Early life Mnangagwa was born in Harare to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Jayne Matarise, who died on 31 January 2002 of cervical cancer. Mnangagwa has five older siblings: Farai, Tasiwa, Vimbayi, Tapiwa, and Emmerson Tanaka. She also has three half-siblings from her father's second marriage. Mnangagwa obtained a Diploma in Professional Photography at Cape Town's CityVarsity. She also graduated with an Honours in Sport Management at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Career After returning to Zimbabwe, Mnangagwa joined with Akashinga, an all-female anti-poaching ranger unit. Then she became a member an all-female anti-poaching combat unit called the International Anti-Poaching Foundation. Soon after that, she was invited t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamy Moyo
Thamsanqa 'Tamy' Moyo (born 5 January 1998) is a Zimbabwean musical artist and actress. She rose to fame after releasing her 2016 song “Ndibereke" she is also known for her role in the 2020 film “Gonarezhou". Early life She was born on 5 January 1998 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Her father Richard Kohola is a presenter at Star FM Zimbabwe popularly known as RK. She was raised by her mother Doris Moyo and her grandfather Makwara. Career At the age of 7, she started singing particularly in the senior choir. She completed primary education from Lusitania Primary School and later attended Westridge High School for secondary education. At an age of 13 while she was in Form One, she joined with popular artists Joe Thomas, Oliver Mtukudzi, Stunner, Ba Shupi, and Alexio Kawara. Later she became the Child Ambassador for Childline Zimbabwe, becoming the youngest Zimbabwean ever to be an ambassador. In 2008, Tamy formed the Uganda African Choir, together with three other colleagues in a chari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poaching
Poaching has been defined as the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights. Poaching was once performed by impoverished peasants for subsistence purposes and to supplement meager diets. It was set against the hunting privileges of nobility and territorial rulers. Since the 1980s, the term "poaching" has also been used to refer to the illegal harvesting of wild plant species. In agricultural terms, the term 'poaching' is also applied to the loss of soils or grass by the damaging action of feet of livestock, which can affect availability of productive land, water pollution through increased runoff and welfare issues for cattle. Stealing livestock as in cattle raiding classifies as theft, not as poaching. The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 15 enshrines the sustainable use of all wildlife. It targets the taking of action on dealing with poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna to ensure their avail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Taivavashe
Sydney Taivavashe (born March 20,1991) is a Zimbabwean film director, producer and screenwriter. Early life Sydney Taivavashe was born in 1991 in Masvingo, Zimbabwe where he grew up. Career Sydney made his debut film in 2006, a short film titled ''The Terrific Nights.'' His first feature film ''Through The Night'' was nominated at 2014 National Arts Merit Awards in the outstanding feature film category. In 2017, Sydney won a NAMA award for directing ''Seiko'', a silent short film. In the same year he partnered with Great Zimbabwe University Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) is an institution of higher learning in the city of Masvingo, Zimbabwe. It is currently situated on the Masvingo Teachers’ College campus seven kilometres east of Masvingo CBD. Currently the institution has a nu ... to produce feature film ''Solo naMutsai'', portraying the experience of students who come from poor backgrounds at the university. In 2019, Sydney produced an anti-poaching awareness film tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zimbabwe Parks And Wildlife Management Authority
Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) is an agency of the Zimbabwe government managing national parks. Zimbabwe's game reserves are managed by the government. They were initially founded as a means of using unproductive land. History The first proclaimed game reserve was Wankie (now Hwange), formed in 1928 and upgraded in the 1949 National Parks Act. The then-Rhodesia's game section was originally formed in 1952 as a subsidiary of the Department of Mines, Lands and Surveys. This was the nucleus that became the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management in 1964. The Parks and Wildlife Act of 1975 established the agency. It was a quintessential breakthrough for conservation. The core philosophy of how people perceived wildlife was changed. Under the act, ownership of wildlife passed from the state to whoever owned the land the animal lived on. When the landowners (both communal and private) became custodians of the wildlife, a change in mindset oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tendaiishe Chitima
Tendaiishe Chitima (born ) is a Zimbabwean actress. Biography Chitima described herself as shy growing up in Zimbabwe, and did not consider acting as a career. She attended the University of Cape Town, studying media and journalism. Chitima took a drama course and loved it, deciding to become a professional actress. She did not tell her parents about her plan until after she graduated. Chitima later earned a master's degree in business. During and after her studies, she acted in short films, including ''Jayson's Hope'' (2013), which was a Top 10 finalist for the Afrinolly Short Film Competition. At the beginning of her career, Chitima's roles were on South African television where she played maids and victims of human trafficking, exposing the plight of some migrant women. In 2016, she played Blessing in the second season of the TV series ''Mutual Friends''. She portrayed Adelaide, an orphan involved in human trafficking, in the TV series ''Isidingo'' in 2016. In 2017, Chitima wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan African Film Festival
Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) is a non-profit corporation in Los Angeles, California, that states its goal is to promote "cultural understanding among peoples of African descent" through exhibiting art and film. It hosts a film festival and an arts festival in Los Angeles in February of each year. ''The Los Angeles Times'' in 2013 called the film festival "the largest black film festival" in the United States. Background In its early years, it was held in West Africa, specifically in Burkina Faso (in February 1985, it was held in Ouagadougou and hosted by Thomas Sankara). The first official festival was organized in 1992 by actors Danny Glover and Ja'net Dubois and executive director Ayuko Babu. Glover and actress Whoopi Goldberg co-hosted the festival. It featured over by black directors from four continents. ''The Los Angeles Times'' said the films had universal themes as well as African themes: "the overthrow of colonial governments, the clash between modern values and tradi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Films
2019 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2019, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and movie programming. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best movies of 2019, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said, "It's the year of apocalyptic cinema of the highest order, the year in which three of our best filmmakers have responded with vast ambition, invention, and inspiration to the crises at hand, including the threats to American democracy, the catastrophic menaces arising from global warming, the corrosive cruelty of ethnic hatreds and nationalist prejudices, and the poisonous overconcentration of money and power. At the same time, it's a year of inside-movies practicalities, of special attention to the business at hand, because of the structural threats to the movie business from new and powerful players. The major crisis specific to cinema outleaps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
