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TSOTSI

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

TSOTSI

With TSOTSI, Gavin Hood has taken the liberty of updating the timeframe of South African writer Athol Fugard’s only novel. In doing so, the politics of apartheid that spurred the story in the book has given way to the tragedy of AIDS. Changing the circumstances of its title character’s orphaning, though, doesn’t affect the nature of… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award Winner, Africa, African Cinema, Athol Fugard, Best Foreign Film, cinema, director, drama, Gavin Hood, Johannesburg, lawyer, movie drama, narrative, Oscar-winner, race relations, screenwriter, South Africa, TSOTSI

Gavin Hood Tells the Story of TSOTSI

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Gavin Hood Tells the Story of TSOTSI

Gavin Hood felt that there was more than just an Oscar ™ riding on the success of TSOTSI, based on the novel by Athol Fugard and South Africa’s official entry for the 2005 Best Foreign Film Academy Award ™. It’s one of the many things we talked about when I interviewed him on February 10, 2006. … Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award Winner, Africa, African Cinema, Athol Fugard, Best Foreign Film, cinema, director, drama, Gavin Hood, Johannesburg, lawyer, movie drama, narrative, Oscar-winner, race relations, screenwriter, South Africa, TSOTSI

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