The shore break

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"Directed by Ryley Grunenwald, The Shore Break was a selected project at the 2012 Durban FilmMart, the IDFA WorldView Summer School 2013, the Hot Docs Forum 2012 and the Hot Docs Dealmakers 2013. I...

"Directed by Ryley Grunenwald, The Shore Break was a selected project at the 2012 Durban FilmMart, the IDFA WorldView Summer School 2013, the Hot Docs Forum 2012 and the Hot Docs Dealmakers 2013. It is co-produced by two South African companies, Grunenwald's Johannesburg-based Marie-Vérité Films and Odette Geldenhuys' Cape Town-based Frank Films. The film was in competition at the recent International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IFDA) and was named the Best Feature Length Documentary at the 2015 International Environmental Film Festival (FIFE) in Paris. In the Amadiba area, in the heart of the Wild Coast, the Pondo people have tended their traditional way of life for centuries. A proposed titanium mine and the government's controversial plan to build a highway across this ancestral ground, has polarised the community with those that see it as the beginning of the destruction of a way of life, and others who see it as a beacon of economic hope for the region. Nonhle Mbuthuma, a young local eco-tour guide, is a staunch supporter of her people and the endangered environment on which their livelihood and culture depends. She wants to develop eco-tourism in order to protect her community's homes, farms, graves, and traditional lifestyle. Her cousin Zamille 'Madiba' Qunya, a local entrepreneur and self-proclaimed moderniser, is fully supportive of the proposed mining operations and highway construction. Tired of his community living in poverty, Madiba scurrilously courts private capital and questionable government officials. While the South African president deposes the pro-environment Pondo Royal Family, Nonhle rallies support with little more than dogged determination."--National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa website: http://www.nfvf.co.za/home/index.php?ipkMenuID=&ipkArticleID=259.

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