The Creators (film)

The Creators South Africa Through the Eyes of Its Artists is a 2012 South African documentary film produced and directed by Laura Gamse which interweaves the lives of diverse South African artists including Faith47, Cashril, Warongx, Emile Jansen of Black Noise, Markus Wormstorm and Spoek Mathambo of Sweat.X, Blaq Pearl, and Mthetho Mapoyi.

A street artist illuminating the forgotten townships haloing South Africas cities, Faith is a subversive activist creating for public art and a mother painting a new world for her twelve year old son. Faith uses the 1955 ANC document, The Freedom Charter, to inspire murals questioning whether South Africas postapartheid government kept its central goals after ascending to power. Painting in townships with levels of violence surpassing all of subSaharan Africa, Faith infiltrates the culture on a level that allows her to merge seamlessly with the countrys impoverished majority. The film views Faith through the eyes of her son, aka Cashril Plus South Africas youngest genius.An Afroblues artist originally from the rural Eastern Cape, Ongx was awarded first place in a national music competition in 2007, winning a record deal with Africas largest music production company. When the deal did not turn out as promised, Ongx must play music on the streets, wash dishes and connect illegal electricity in the townships in order to make ends meet. Fighting tooth and nail to sustain himself through his passion, Ongx puts a human face on a devastating social reality in a country with roughlyunemployed citizens. Ongx and his best friend Wara form the band Warongx, singing in their traditional language of Xhosa while the world around them turns increasingly towards English pop music. Demonstrating pride in traditional African culture, Ongx and Wara expose the schism between their peoples roots and an increasingly westernized media landscape. ........

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