Terry Pheto & other SA filmmakers head to Cannes Film Festival reports the M&G Arts Desk.
Award-winning South African actor Terry Pheto will take part in one of the world’s most esteemed film festival’s, Cannes.
But not as an actor. This time the Tsotsi star, model (she was named the face of L’Oreal in 2008) and owner of Leading Lady Productions will set off to the festival where the coming of age film Ayanda and the Mechanic, which she co-produced, will be screened. “I came across a script, at the time it was called Ayanda and the Mechanic, a couple of years ago with Sara Blecher. I fell in love [with the script] and had a meeting with her and she wanted me to play one of the characters there,” she is recently quoted as saying.
Ayanda and the Mechanics is part of a handful of South African films showing at the festival. Zombie movie Last Ones Out by local director Howard James Fyvie and Sibs Shongwe-La Mer’s highly publicised Necktie Youth, among others, will be on screen at the French festival.
Read: Eight SA films to be screened at Cannes.
via Mail & Guardian
