South Africa

Molly Blank began working in South Africa as the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship for journalism in 2005. Where Do I Stand? follows up Blank’s award-winning documentary Testing Hope: Grade 12 in the New South Africa, released in 2007. The film, about four students in a township outside Cape Town preparing for and taking their Matric exams which they believe will determine their future, was featured in several publications including the Sunday Times and Drum Magazine in South Africa and National Public Radio in the U.S. It was broadcast on South African Broadcasting Company in 2010. She has contributed commentary to various publications including the Mail and Guardian and gave a TEDx talk in 2013 entitled, “How Schools Work.” She co-authored How to Fix South Africa’s Schools: Lessons From Schools That Work, with Jonathan Jansen, Vice Chancellor at the University of the Free State. She holds a Masters in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA from Tufts University. Biography Source

Filmography

Lights in the Delta (2004)
Testing Hope: Grade 12 in the New South Africa (2007)
Where Do I Stand? (2010)
Schools That Work (2014)
Community: What’s In A Word? (2014)
Memory Keepers (2015)
The Good Ones (2016)