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Our volunteers continue to assist and work out of the clinic, ensuring that women’s health is supported and prioritised in the region. Featured here: Sonja Botha, Neil Tabatznik and Sr Busisiwe Moroane.
Tshemba’s lead founder, Neil Tabatznik, was approached by the tracker of the drive to help with the slow build of his daughter’s satellite primary school. Neil agreed to build the entire school, but still wanted to do more.
May 20, 2022 · I stayed away for 36 years and cut all ties with the country. However, seventeen years ago, I returned to South Africa, for personal reasons: my son’s bar mitzvah. With family dispersed across North America, Europe and Australia, South Africa felt like a central place to congregate.
Neil Tabatznik is a partner and co-founder of BIGC and a producer with a wealth of experience in the film and television industry. As a co-owner of the Blue Lake Media Fund, Neil has executive-produced a number of successful feature films including Steven Silver’s The Bang Bang Club and Alexander Payne’s Nebraska.
- The Shots Seen Around The World
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- In The Photographers’ Words: Greg Marinovich and João Silva
- The Actors: Creating A Narrative of A True Story
- Shooting Where It Happened
- About The Actors
- About The Filmmakers
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Before the world knew who Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva were, everyone knew their photographs. Before the world truly understood the horror of apartheid, its violence had been exposed by the work of these extraordinary young men. On 15 September 1990, Marinovich took a series of photographs for Associated Presswhich ...
The Bang-Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe), Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch), Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) and João Silva (Neels van Jaarsveld), whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa. The film tells the remarkable and sometimes harrowing story of the...
Written and directed by Steven Silver, The Bang-Bang Clubis a Canada-South Africa co-production from producer Daniel Iron of Foundry Films Inc. and Lance Samuels and Adam Friedlander of Out of Africa Entertainment, distributed worldwide by E1 Entertainment. It was shot in and around Johannesburg, South Africa. Steven Silver is an award-winning writ...
“I always try to keep in mind that to get those pictures of drama and mayhem, somebody has had a very bad day.” – João Silva Greg Marinovich and João Silva, the two surviving photographers at the centre of the story and the authors of the book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War,spent a great deal of time on set during principal photogr...
Coming from a distinctly documentary background, Silver had to reconcile the journalist instinct and the filmmaker instinct. “When you are telling a story about real people and you are trying to create a narrative film about events that actually happened, you are serving two masters,” he said. “One is obliged to serve the truth. And at the same tim...
“For the people living in those communities, those memories are recent and fresh, and those wounds are open.” – Steven Silver When FW de Klerk, then president of South Africa, announced the ban on the African National Congress would be lifted on 2 February 1990, supporters of the ANC – both black and white – came out onto the streets of Johannesbur...
Ryan Phillippe (Greg Marinovich) – As an actor, producer, and writer, Ryan Phillippe has quickly established himself as one of Hollywood’s most versatile young talents. He has starred in many diverse roles beginning with his first film, Disney’s White Squall, working with acclaimed director Ridley Scott. In his early films, Phillippe was able to wo...
Steven Silver (writer, director, and executive producer) – Beginning his career in the South African film industry, Steven Silver went on to write and co-produce Gerrie & Louise, an international Emmy-award-winning feature-length documentary. Steven went on to direct numerous documentaries. His greatest success came from The Last Just Man, a featur...
Greg: Ryan PhillippeRobin: Malin AkermanKevin: Taylor KitschJoão: Neels van JaarsveldWriter / Director: Steven SilverProducer: Daniel IronProducer: Lance SamuelsProducer / Sa / Line Producer: Adam FriedlanderMar 29, 2024 · Others, like Neil Tabatznik of Blue Ice Docs, helped grow Hot Docs’ film funds with the Hot Docs–Blue Ice Fund supporting African talent. “There were no other outlets where these funders could direct their focus and energies toward African filmmakers living and working on the continent,” explains Radshaw.
It was during the new, post-apartheid period in South Africa that I fell in love with the country all over again. I started the Tshemba Foundation in Hoedspruit, Mpumalanga, out of complete selfishness initially: It was an excuse to come back to South Africa, while doing good.
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