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out with friends (at the beach
or the cinema), playing sports
(basketball, baseball, running
track), and listening to music
(radio-friendly modern pop), but
Zuriel Oduwoles timetable also
includes interviewing world leaders,
advocacy work and filmmaking.
Recognised as the worlds youngest
filmmaker, Zuriel (whose father is Nigerian and mother
is Mauritian), has four documentaries to her name already, with a fifth
set for release this year. Its called One Plus Two Plus Three Equals
29 000, she explains on her recent five-day trip to Joburg and a stop
over at the ELLE HQ, noting that while the sum of the numbers is not
at all mathematically correct, it speaks to the idea behind it. Its about
one girl, taking two footballs to three continents to get people talking
about girls education. She filmed it during the 2014 World Cup, and in
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the process successfully managed to get governors, ambassadors and
soccer players to sign the balls in support of her ongoing work to further
raise awareness about education for girls in Africa.
In the past two years, Zuriel has met face-to-face with more than 21
world leaders, attended a United Nations session, and has her heart set
on running for president when she is 35. But between now and the next
21 years, the Los Angeles native is using her film work to communicate
her education message. Giving film workshops for girls when she travels
around the continent, and armed with a camera, Zuriels view is certainly
making a positive impact through art. Watch this space
ONE TO READ LIFE ON INSTAGRAM, CURATED BY
JIM STODDART
Penguin Books
What if, in a world where millions
of us capture and share our lives
instantly with one another, there
was a place to bring the best of
these images together? This is the
question posed (and answered) in
Life on Instagram. The first and only
annual of its kind, the book, with
its minimal layout and incredible
assortment of shared
images, shows us who
we are and how we live
according to Instagram.
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MOONLIGHT
10 Feb
A timeless story of human connection
and self-discovery, Moonlight narrates
the life of a young black man (Mahershala
Ali, who was nominated in the best
supporting actor catergory at the Golden
Globes), as he struggles to find his place
in the world while growing up in a rough
Miami neighbourhood. Co-starring Naomie
Harris and Janelle Mone, Moonlight was
honoured with the Golden Globe for best
film (in the drama category).
AN ACT OF DEFIANCE
1 March
In 1963 South Africa, Nelson Mandela and
nine fellow anti-apartheid activists are
arrested on a farm in Rivonia. Tenacious
lawyer Bram Fischer heads up lead
counsel. Starring Peter Paul Muller and
Sello Motloung.
JACKIE
3 March
An intimate portrait of the then-First Lady
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy following her
husbands assassination in Dallas. Forever
hailed for her poise under unbearable
pain, Natalie Portman brings the First
Lady to life beautifully.
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Tony Gum at
Christopher Moller Gallery
16 March 29 April
Artist in learning Tony Gum,
co-founder of The Local Collective
Vlog on YouTube and nominated
for the Prize Award at the Pulse
New York Art Fair, brings her
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creativity to the fore.
Bogosi Sekhukhuni
(Simunye Summit 2010) at
The Stevenson Gallery
Until 3 March
Take in Bogosi Sekhukhunis first
solo exhibition, with videos and
objects set in a parallel futuristic
past, using allegory and myth
as a form of instruction and
DURBAN introspection.
Decorex Durban, Durban
Exhibition Centre
18 21 March
Themed Make Your Space Your
Living Dream, the premier dcor,
design and lifestyle exhibition
showcases globally influenced
design trends made for the
South African home.
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