SA film wins landslide victory at film festival

Cape Town - A searing South African film about sugar daddies and marital rape, Thina Sobabili: The Two of Us has lifted the coveted Audience Award at Danny Glover’s Pan African Film Festival (Paff) in Los Angeles.

Director Ernest Nkosi and his team met at film school. They made the film on a shoestring budget, with no state or private funding. The film debuted at the Durban International Film Festival last year to half empty houses – and now is the darling of the American festival scene.

City Press spoke to an ecstatic Nkosi last night just after the film’s win: "Dreams do come true. We are so emotional, wow wow!" he said.