Swaziland documentary nominated for
international award
Kenworthy News Media, 6 November
2015
“Swaziland – Africa’s
last monarchy”, a documentary film about activist Bheki Dlamini by
award-winning Danish investigative journalist Tom Heinemann, has been nominated
in the short film category at the Al-Jazeera International Film Festival, writes Kenworthy News Media.
The main character in the
documentary, young activist Bheki Dlamini, says that he is pleased with the
nomination as well as with the publicity that the film has given the struggle
for democracy and social justice in his homeland of Swaziland.
“The documentary on
Swaziland has helped to give a voice to the suffering people of Swaziland who
are in a bitter struggle for freedom and democracy. My story, as captured in
the documentary, is the story of most activists in Swaziland who are subjected
to torture, beatings, arrests and forced exile. The nomination of the
documentary is a victory for the people of Swaziland as Mswati’s regime can no
longer afford to fool the world that there is no problem in Swaziland”, says
Bheki Dlamini.
In August,
the film won the main prize and the prize for best short documentary at the A
Film for Peace-festival in Italy as part of Tom Heinemann and Erling Borgen’s
series, “A Heart That Never Dies”. The series has been aired on Danish-,
Swedish- and Norwegian national television.
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