Tsotsi
Written and Directed byGAVIN HOOD Produced byPETER FUDAKOWSKI Based on the novel "Tsotsi" by ATHOL FUGARD Stephen Bess said , "This is Boyz -n- The Hood and Dead Presidents South African style. A great film!" I had the pleasure last night of attending a private screening of the South African film, Tsotsi . The film has gained instantly popularity after winning (to name a few) the Thessaloniki Film Festival 2005, Toronto Film Festival 2005, Edinburgh film festival 2005 and recently stole the heart of the American Academy for best foreign film of 2005 . The film stars actor, Presley Chweneyagae who portrayed (Tsotsi, meaning Thug) the painfully familiar displaced, disenfranchised, angry, lost thug trying to survive in the shantytowns of a new, but still overwhelmingly poor South Africa. The film didn’t dwell on the important past/present issues of South Africa such as Apartheid and discrimination, but the affects of that system were plain to see in the images prese...