Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children
Film
by Xoliswa Sithole & Jezza Neuman
Details
South Africa and Zimbabwe / 2010 / 90mins / Documentary / Shona and English
Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children tells the story of three children trying to survive in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, a country which was once the jewel of Africa but where the infrastructure is now in terminal collapse. Grace, Esther and Obert show us how they not only struggle to put food in their mouths but also desperately seek the money they need to pay next term's school fees.
About the Directors
Xoliswa Sithole
Xoliswa Sithole is a BAFTA and Peabody award winning producer and filmmaker, born in Apartheid-era South Africa and raised in Zimbabwe. A member of the British Film and Television Academy, she is also the first South African to be awarded a British Academy Television Award. She began her career as an actress, before moving on to working as a director and producer, garnering critical praise and multiple prestigious awards. Sithole has acted in such films as Cry Freedom, Mandela, Fools, and Chikin Biznis. She has produced and researched several documentaries such as South Africa from Triumph to Transition and Nelson Mandela for CNN Prime Time, and the hit 13-part South African television series Real Lives. She has also produced and starred in Shouting Silent (2002), a documentary about female AIDS orphans. Her 2018 documentary, Standing on Their Shoulders is a historical journey through time that connects female resistance movements in South Africa. Learn More
Jezza Neuman
Jezza Neumann is a BAFTA, Robert F. Kennedy, and Rory Peck award-winning filmmaker. Neumann’s first film as director, China’s Stolen Children, won three British Academy Awards. Since then, Neumann has made award-winning documentaries for the BBC,
Channel 4, and others about life in occupied Tibet (Undercover in Tibet), children trying to survive in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children), and child poverty in America (FRONTLINE’s Poor Kids, which was nominated for an Emmy). Neumann is a director with True Vision, a UK-based independent documentary production company. Learn More
