
Sophiatown
Little Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. SOPHIATOWN celebrates the great popular jazz music of the 1950's in South Africa; a rich tradition deserving international attention. Director Pascale Lamche, traces the music, uncovers the artists who created it and the unique culture in which it thrived, concentrated in Sophiatown, Johannesburg's own Harlem, which fuelled by liberation politics until its destruction by the Apartheid regime. The film features Nelson Mandela and such household names from the jazz world as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphus Semenya.
Sophiatown
August 16, 2003
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Cast (7)

Jonas Gwangwa
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Abdullah Ibrahim
Self

Nelson Mandela
Self

Hugh Masekela
Self

Dorothy Masuka
Self

Jürgen Schadeberg
Self

Dolly Rathebe
Self
Crew (12)
Directing

Pascale Lamche
Director
Writing

Pascale Lamche
Writer
Production

James Mitchell
Producer

Pascale Lamche
Producer

Indra De Lanerolle
Producer

Lebohang Morake
Producer

Rob Lowdon
Producer
Sound

Bheki Khoza
Sound Director

Wilbert Schübel
Sound Editor
Art
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Louise Mycielski
Video Assist Operator

Dominic Black
Cinematography
Editing

Catherine Meyburgh
Editor