The South African film Themba: A Boy Called Hope has scooped the Unicef Child Rights Award at the 2010 Zanzibar International Film Festival (Ziff).
”Themba’s story is universal,” said Pretoria-born director Stefanie Sycholt. “It’s not a football movie that builds up to one match at the end. It’s about the element of hope in a boy’s life.”
A keen supporter of the film, Nobel Peace prize winner Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, said it reminded him of his own childhood in a small village in the former Transvaal, now Gauteng.
The young Tutu, like Themba, had hopes of rising above poverty and making something of himself in the world.
The film is also garnering rave reviews from all over the world. On the Internet Movie Database it has a score of 7.6 out of 10 and it’s currently showing at the Labia on Orange in Cape Town.
Convened by judges Abigail Donnelly, Arnold Tanzer, Pete Goffe-Wood and Anna Trapido, the winning restaurant will be revealed on the 28th of November.
Eat Out Magazine is a well-known South Africa’s restaurant guide. In their 12th year, the awards are dedicated to the upliftment of the local restaurant industry and the celebration of the country’s wealth of talented chefs.|