Teboho Edkins

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Teboho Edkins (born September 19, 1980 in the state of Tennessee , USA ) is an American film director .

Life

Edkins, whose mother is German and whose father is South African , grew up in Lesotho and South Africa. He studied art at the University of Cape Town , then was able to work for two years as an artist in residence at Le Fresnoy , the Studio National des Arts Contemporains , in Tourcoing in northern France, thanks to a scholarship . This scholarship was followed by postgraduate studies at the dffb German Film and Television Academy Berlin in Berlin .

Edkins has been known since 2004 for his short films and documentaries about life in South Africa after the end of apartheid .

Awards and honors

Filmography

  • 2004: Ask Me I'm Positive , documentary film; Director.
  • 2005: Looking Good , documentary; Director.
  • 2005: True Love ; Director.
  • 2006: Gangster Project 1 , short video art film; Director.
  • 2007: Kinshasa 2.0 , short documentary for television, shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Director.
  • 2011: Thato , short documentary; Camera and direction.
  • 2011: Gangster Project , documentary film; Screenplay, director and actor.
  • 2013: Gangster Backstage , short documentary film; Script, director.
  • 2015: Coming of Age, documentary film; Script, director
  • 2016: Initiation , video art film; Director

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A face, marked by cuts in FAZ of August 23, 2014, page 13
personal data
SURNAME Edkins, Teboho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American documentary filmmaker and film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Tennessee (State) , USA