South Africa Freedom Month - Film Screening

The New York South African Consulate, in collaboration with NYU Africa House, is celebrating 29 years of freedom with a documentary film screening of Standing on Their Shoulders by Ms. Xoliswa Sithole (from South Africa).

Date: April 24, 2023

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET (doors open at 6:00pm)

Venue: 14A Washington Mews, NY 10003

Film Synopsis

Standing on their Shoulders looks at the 1956 women’s march against the carrying of passes, and the domino effect of these women marching for their rights on present day South Africa.

Filmmaker Biography

Xoliswa Sithole is a BAFTA and Peabody award winning producer and filmmaker, born in Apartheid-era South Africa and raised in Zimbabwe. A member of the British Film and Television Academy, she is also the first South African to be awarded a British Academy Television Award. She began her career as an actress, before moving on to working as a director and producer, garnering critical praise and multiple prestigious awards. Sithole has acted in such films as Cry Freedom, Mandela, Fools, and Chikin Biznis. She has produced and researched several documentaries such as South Africa from Triumph to Transition and Nelson Mandela for CNN Prime Time, and the hit 13-part South African television series Real Lives. She has also produced and starred in Shouting Silent (2002), a documentary about female AIDS orphans. Her 2018 documentary, Standing on Their Shoulders is a historical journey through time that connects female resistance movements in South Africa.