White Wedding was a great big screen, main stream success this year. Tsotsi wowed at the 2005 Oscars, winning Best Foreign Film that year and Jerusalema found acclaim locally and abroad in 2008.
The latest success story from the South African film industry is
Madoda Ncayiyana 's
My Secret Sky - news broke this week that one of the child stars of this beautifully shot film, set in and around
Durban, won the
best actress award at the
African Film Festival of Tarifa 2009 in Spain.
At just 11 years old this is no mean feat for young Sobahle Mkhabase, one of the children recruited from local townships for the film. The movie also won the Audience Award at the same festival, and the Best Feature Prize at the Cannes Pan African Film Festival earlier in the year.
My Secret Sky tells a compelling tale of a young, freshly orphaned brother and sister who leave their rural KZN village and head for the crowded city of Durban.
