Showcase celebrates the legacy of queer icon Beverley Ditsie
The ‘Bev Ditsie Retrospective: A Black Queer Feminist Journey through 40 years of TV and Film’ takes place on 17 April.
Legendary filmmaker, Beverley Ditsie. Photo: 702/Karabo Tebele
702’s Bongani Bingwa speaks with visionary filmmaker and activist, Beverley Ditsie.
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The extraordinary legacy of Beverley Palesa Ditsie comes to life at The Other Foundation in Rosebank.
The ‘Bev Ditsie Retrospective: A Black Queer Feminist Journey through 40 years of TV and Film’ offers a curated collection of their film, video and television projects.
The event will be moderated by activist and TV personality Lebogang Mashile.
Ditsie has written, directed, produced and consulted in over 20 socio political and human rights documentaries, screened nationally and internationally.
They were instrumental in bringing LGBTIQA+ rights into focus in the late 80s and 90s.
“We [as society] struggle a lot because we are constantly told that we shouldn’t exist but we are also told that nobody like us actually exists, especially around my time in the early 1990s.”
– Beverley Ditsie, filmmaker
“That really inspired me getting into filmmaking and into wanting to create images of ourselves that show that we actually are here. We’ve always been here and being silenced doesn’t serve us. All it really does is marginalise us even further.”
– Beverley Ditsie, filmmaker
Tickets are available on Quicket here.
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