"There are more woman in documentary making than in fiction"

Today Sara Gouveia was on our show talking about her path as a young female documentary maker. She also spoke about her newest film 'The Sound of Masks' and her previous work.

Sara was born in Lisbon, Portugal but has been living in Cape Town for 12 years now. Her work focuses on art. With 'Mama Goema', she won the aard for Best SA Documentary at the TriContinental Film Festival in 2011.

She also said that it is not always easy for women to get engaged in filmmaking. In documentary making there are a lot of female makers, maybe because for the themes you need more empathy, Sara said. Sara stressed the fact that she thinks it is goed to empower women in making films but that fixed quota may be not a good idea. She always choses the subject first, if women are in the lead that's good but she doesn't underlines it as something necessary.

The Sound of Masks is about a Mapiko dancer from northern Mozambique. It played yesterday at Labia for the first time in South Africa. It will be played also tomorrow evening. Check schedule out here.

Pics and text by Dries Hiroux



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