San Heritage Digitisation Project

This vital project encompassed documenting of heritage stories within San communities of the Kalahari. Supported by the National Heritage Council of South Africa and the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme, the project benefited young people who attained skills in filmmaking and documentation of their heritage as well as job creation
 
SKAAPIE: SAN HERO OR VILLAIN?
 

Over a hundred years later following WW1, a man called Skaapie is a hero who has been entombed in both memory and folklore of the indigenous Khoi and San people of Southern Africa.

Country: South Africa

Trainee Directors: Clairisha Matthys, Merolize Krieger

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council of South Africa

 
BONE OF MY BONES
 

Where does your surname come from? A young and curious Khoi and San storyteller in the Kalahari Desert traces the family tree to its colonial roots.

Trainee Director: Sammonia de Klerk

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council of South Africa

Country: South Africa

 
THE MONUMENT OF RIETFONTEIN
 

In a small border town of South Africa, a local monument gets the indigenous Khoi and San indigenous people reflect on their past.

Trainee Directors: Cathleen Barends, Annastachia Bezuidenhoudt
Carnell Cloete

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council of South Africa

Country: South Africa

 
THE HISTORY OF LOUBOS
 

In the Kalahari Desert is a town called Loubos and home to the indigenous Khoi and San people who now want to know the roots of the town.

Trainee Directors:Beverly-Ann de Koker
Shareef de Koker, Jonique de Koker

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa

Country: South Africa

THE HISTORY OF PHILANDERSBRON
 

Every community has its own beginnings. And locals in Philandersbron, a small community in the Kalahari Desert are keen to know the genesis of their desert home.

Trainee Directors: Taffi van der Westhuizen
Maria Eiman, Edward Grawie

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa

Country: South Africa

MEDICINE PEOPLE
 

In a time of climate change and extreme weather patterns, the indigenous medicine men of the Kalahari Desert are worried about the future of natural medicines.

Trainee Directors: Britney van Rooi, Zaleika van Rooi

Producer: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa

Country: South Africa

THE CRAFTSMAN
 

Living in harmony with nature, and creating artefacts that reflects this co-existence is part and parcel of the culture of the Khoi and San First Nation in Southern Africa.

Trainee Directors: Lenice van Wyk, Sonja Brow

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa

Country: South Africa

 

THE FIRST WELL
 

In the heart of the dry Kalahari Desert in Northern Cape South Africa there is a well, and it has a is legendary tale which continue to be passed on from one generation to the next by the indigenous Khoi and San people.

Trainee Directors: Rudy Ann van de Byl
Nicolass Steenkamp, Chamone Rooi

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with National Heritage Council South Africa

Country: South Africa

THE HISTORY OF MIER – PART 1
 

In the vast Kalahari Desert, the indigenous Khoi and San track back to the origins of Mier, one of the colonial settlements which they call home them.

Trainee Directors: Megan Cloete, Violet Snyders

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa

Country: South Africa

THE HISTORY OF MIER – PART TWO
 

In the vast Kalahari Desert, the indigenous Khoi and San track back to the origins of Mier, one of the colonial settlements which they call home them.

Trainee Directors: Megan Cloete, Violet Snyders

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa

Country: South Africa

THE SALT PAN
 

In the heart of the expansive Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, home to the Khoi and San indigenous people, lies one of the world’s largest and fabled salt pans.

Trainee Directors: Nicodene Mienies, Christina Eiman

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa

Country: South Africa

THE TRACKER
 

For thousands of years, the indigenous Khoi and San people of Southern Africa have been keepers of some of the most fascinating hunting traditions on earth.

Directors: Ashwill van Wyk, Lenice van Wyk

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa

Country: South Africa

DAAR SE DAM
 

In a time of climate change marked by water crises and fewer sources of water in the dry Kalahari Desert, locals go down the memory lane to learn more about a dam that has been their source of life for over a hundred years.

Trainee Directors: Ferdinand Jacobs, Josy Ann van der Byl, Fenesheree Busakhwe

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with the National Heritage Council South Africa

Country: South Africa

SEARCHING FOR THE HORNBILL
 

The indigenous Khoi and San of Southern Africa have a deep reverence for nature, and now there are worried about the future of the hornbill.

Trainee Directors: Patricia Bladbeen, Megan Pietersen

Producers: Africa Human Rights Film Festival in partnership with National Heritage Council South Africa

Country: South Africa