Film Festival Film

Film Festival Film is a movie shot over a weekend at the Durban International Film Festival South Africa in July 2018 by the underground South African collective Medu African Film Ensemble aka Medu AF With a sense of mischief and minimal resources pooled together by its contributors the film tells the story of Fanon a Black female filmmaker beset by her demons ten floors up in an oceanside hotel gazing out over African shores during the hermeticallysealed weirdness that is the world of a film festival Using elements of fiction and documentary the film follows Fanon as she wrestles with what the film industry expects her to be and not to be as she readies herself to pitch her first film