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Rungano Nyoni
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“I've just finished shooting my first feature film in Zambia. I am now in post-production and gearing to finish it in May this year. Fingers crossed.”
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“The idea of working in cinema was the reason I applied. When I did apply, I was interested in being an actress, but by the second year I knew I wanted to be a director and I think my acting classes helped me become a better director. I learnt how to write and direct through learning how to act.”
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“All of them. Every scene has a synopsis, and I basically had to throw away the dialogue. You have a synopsis, and you have where it needs to go next, and where it comes from. It’s great, because everyone is natural.”
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“The film isn’t completely realistic, but I think it captures something of that reality.'”
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“Rather than getting an actor to act, it’s easier to get a non-professional who’s like the character.”
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“You have naturalistic performances but very little control over how it’s going to end up.'”
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“I was trying to get people closer to our humour, which is cruel, but therapeutic, in a way.'”
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“When I wrote this film, I was very a”
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“People engage with the subject better through humour than through telling them, ‘This is bad.”
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“They’re free from being persecuted and harmed…but they’re not free within the camp.”
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“I thought, ‘Oh my God, these goats are literally more free than these women.”
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“‘I was making decisions based on how is this going to come across as a woman…of colour.”
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“‘I had to wonder if me being so insistent was going to sabotage my future.”
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“It’s always hard to know why people aren’t listening. Is it because I’m a woman? Because I’m not white?'”
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“This is what it’s like being a woman: you say things, and you say them again.”
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“I’m more nervous than anything … it’s waiting to see it in front of an audience. That either reassures you or makes you even more nervous, so I think that’s when I’ll know.”
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“Very, very similar in terms of being super laidback and what you see is what you get. There is no pretence, there’s no trying to figure out what someone is telling you … Thank God my mum didn’t get to London!”
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“That’s a choice I feel like I, as a woman, make all the time”
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“It’s not the belief that I’m against, or that I question, because spooky things happen all the time in Zambia. It’s that the witch accusations, are always aimed at older women or children. This is the bit I find absurd.”
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“I think, if you cast right, kids are the best to work with because they don’t think about it too much. That’s why the thousand kids.”
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