South Africa / 2003 / 10mins / Documentary / English and Sesotho

Metsi is a poetic documentary on the water crisis in Orange Farm, a township in a “not-so-post-apartheid” South Africa.

Blair Doroshwalther

blair dorosh-walther is a documentary filmmaker and a community activist, who identifies as gender non-conforming and uses both male and female pronouns. With hir debut film Metsi (2003), the ultimate goal was to create international awareness and consistent funding for Orange Farm, a South Africa community facing a water crisis. In 2004 blair was nominated for the Directors Guild of America’s East Coast Female Student Award and won New York University’s Adam Balsono Award for Social Significance at the First-Run Film Festival for Metsi. A Guggenheim Fellow, blair’s passion is to create media that incites action dedicated to achieving social justice. blair's 2014 documentary, Out in the Night had its international premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2014 and has since been in over 140 film festival winning dozens of awards. Learn More