SAN Heritage Digitisation Project
This vital project encompassed documenting of heritage stories within San communities of the Kalahari. Supported by the National Heritage Council of South Africa and the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme, the project benefited young people who attained skills in filmmaking and documentation of their heritage as well as job creation
Skaapie: San Hero or Villain?
Over a hundred years later following WW1, a man called Skaapie is a hero who has been entombed in both memory and folklore of the indigenous Khoi and San people of Southern Africa.
Country: South Africa
Trainee Directors: Clairisha Matthys, Merolize Krieger
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council of South Africa
Bone of My Bones
Where does your surname come from? A young and curious Khoi and San storyteller in the Kalahari Desert traces the family tree to its colonial roots.
Trainee Director: Sammonia de Klerk
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council of South Africa
Country: South Africa
The Monument of Rietfontein
In a small border town of South Africa, a local monument gets the indigenous Khoi and San indigenous people reflect on their past.
Trainee Directors: Cathleen Barends, Annastachia Bezuidenhoudt
Carnell Cloete
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council of South Africa
Country: South Africa
The History of Loubos
In the Kalahari Desert is a town called Loubos and home to the indigenous Khoi and San people who now want to know the roots of the town.
Trainee Directors:Beverly-Ann de Koker
Shareef de Koker, Jonique de Koker
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa
Country: South Africa
The History of Philandersbron
Every community has its own beginnings. And locals in Philandersbron, a small community in the Kalahari Desert are keen to know the genesis of their desert home.
Trainee Directors: Taffi van der Westhuizen
Maria Eiman, Edward Grawie
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa
Country: South Africa
Medicine People
In a time of climate change and extreme weather patterns, the indigenous medicine men of the Kalahari Desert are worried about the future of natural medicines.
Trainee Directors: Britney van Rooi, Zaleika van Rooi
Producer: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa
Country: South Africa
The Craftsman
Living in harmony with nature, and creating artefacts that reflects this co-existence is part and parcel of the culture of the Khoi and San First Nation in Southern Africa.
Trainee Directors: Lenice van Wyk, Sonja Brow
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa
Country: South Africa
The First Well
In the heart of the dry Kalahari Desert in Northern Cape South Africa there is a well, and it has a is legendary tale which continue to be passed on from one generation to the next by the indigenous Khoi and San people.
Trainee Directors: Rudy Ann van de Byl
Nicolass Steenkamp, Chamone Rooi
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with National Heritage Council South Africa
Country: South Africa
The History of Mier – Part 1
In the vast Kalahari Desert, the indigenous Khoi and San track back to the origins of Mier, one of the colonial settlements which they call home them.
Trainee Directors: Megan Cloete, Violet Snyders
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa
Country: South Africa
The History of Mier – Part Two
In the vast Kalahari Desert, the indigenous Khoi and San track back to the origins of Mier, one of the colonial settlements which they call home them.
Trainee Directors: Megan Cloete, Violet Snyders
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa
Country: South Africa
The Salt Pan
In the heart of expansive Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, home to the Khoi and San indigenous people is lies one of the largest and fabled salt pans in the world.
Trainee Directors:Nicodene Mienies, Christina Eiman
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa
Country: South Africa
The Tracker
For thousands of years, the indigenous Khoi and San people of Southern Africa have been keepers of some of the most fascinating hunting traditions on earth.
Directors: Ashwill van Wyk, Lenice van Wyk
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa
Country: South Africa
Daar se Dam
In a time of climate change marked by water crises and fewer sources of water in the dry Kalahari Desert, locals go down the memory lane to learn more about a dam that has been their source of life for over a hundred years.
Trainee Directors: Ferdinand Jacobs, Josy Ann van der Byl, Fenesheree Busakhwe
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa
Country: South Africa
Searching for the Hornbill
The indigenous Khoi and San of Southern Africa have a deep reverence for nature, and now there are worried about the future of the hornbill.
Trainee Directors: Patricia Bladbeen, Megan Pietersen
Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with National Heritage Council South Africa
Country: South Africa
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