WINNIE DOCUMENTARY GETS A NOD AT SUNDANCE
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela movie gets a nod at Sundance. PICTURE: SUNDANCE The Sundance Film Festival (USA) announced this weekend that Pascale Lamche won Best Director : World Cinema Documentary Competition for Winnie , her film about the South African political icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela . Accepting the award, the French director said her film was for those “who know history was not made by great men”. Madikizela-Mandela is one of the most misunderstood and Intriguingly powerful female figures in contemporary politics. Her rise and seeming fall from grace bear the hallmarks of epic tragedy. While her husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally uncontaminated, Madikizela-Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting on the front line and underground. This is the untold story of the mysterious forces that combined to take her down, labeling him a saint, her, a sinner. Lamche gained unprecedented...