Oliver Schmitz - Unedited Interview
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1989
0:41:44
London
Unedited interview with Oliver Schmitz, a film director who made the South African crime drama Mapantsula starring Thomas Mogotlane and Dolly Rathebe.
Physical formats available:
Betacam SP
Digital formats available:
Quicktime (Pro Res)
Audio & visual:
Sound,
Color
Unedited interview with Oliver Schmitz, a film director who made the South African crime drama Mapantsula starring Thomas Mogotlane and Dolly Rathebe. In this interview, Schmitz talks about his career and how South African feature films differed to documentaries in the way that they portrayed the situation in South Africa. He also talks about the influence of the “news image”. Part of a series of unedited interviews with South African (and some American) writers, journalists and activists made in the late ‘80s, discussing the subject of censorship, films, journalism and more.
Camera:
Daniel Riesenfeld
Interview and Audio:
Peter Davis
Collection
South Africa Interviews
(139)
Unedited Interviews with South African (and some American) writers, journalists and activists made in the late ‘80s, mostly on the subject of censorship and films. Plus production stills and transcripts.
