THE TOWN

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY LINDIWE MAKGALEMELE

LOGLINE

A car breaks down in an anonymous South African town. 

ABOUT OUR FILM FUND WINNER

Lindiwe Makgalemele is a graduate of Harvard University where she majored in History and minored in Romance Languages and Literature. After viewing her short film THE TOWN, the Sundance Institute awarded Lindiwe a place in the prestigious Sundance Ignite Fellowship where she has since continued developing projects. Her work both within the archive and as a filmmaker seeks to tackle the continued erasures, misrememberings, and disappearances one has to confront as one-pieces together stories — particularly those of black and African women.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

Year

Film Festival (Awards)

2022 Durban Int’l Film Festival
2022 Black Star Film Festival
2021 Oberhausen Int’l Short Film Festival
2021 Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival

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