What: 📽 RESONANCE ARCHIVE FESTIVAL: Sam Nzima - A Journey Through His Lens (with Q&A)
https://tickets.tixsa.co.za/event/resonance-archive-festival-SamNzima
When:
Where: 🎥 Bioscope
How much:
🎟️ R100.00Bioscope Ticket
Anaphora Films in association with The South Festival of Memory, present the
inaugural instalment of ‘Resonance Archive Festival’, taking place in
Johannesburg from August 27 - 31, 2025 bringing together filmmakers, artists,
academics, historians and cultural practitioners to reflect on the past,
question the present and shape future memory.
SEE THE FULL FESTIVAL PROGRAM FOR THE BIOSCOPE HERE.
Sam Nzima: A Journey Through His Lens, 2024
Dir: Nhlanhla Mthethwa
Runtime: 74 minutes
Going behind the lens, Sam Nzima’s life unfolds against one of history’s most
recognised photographs, the haunting image of Hector Pieterson during the 1976
Soweto Uprising. Through the events surrounding June 16, 1976, the film
chronicles Nzima’s life, from his early days in rural Transvaal to his rise as
a key figure in South African journalism, at the frontlines of media that
forever changed the political landscape of South Africa. Nzima’s historic
photograph, which laid bare the brutal truths of apartheid and shattered the
government’s carefully crafted propaganda, led to his forced exile. Despite
this, Nzima did not retain copyright of his images until decades later,
revealing a new wave of exploitation and control of the black narrative
Through exclusive interviews, rare archival footage, and intimate personal
stories, Sam Nzima: A Journey Through His Lens reveals the complex, unspoken
power of one image, one man, and countless sacrifices made in the pursuit of
freedom and justice for all.