Guests

Dr. Steve Ouma Akoth is a Kenyan scholar, advisor and activist in the field of human rights and social anthropology. He was a doctoral fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape, where he obtained his Ph.D.

Peter Machen was the Director of the Durban International Film Festival from 2013 to 2016. He was the Arts Editor of the Independent on Saturday in the early 2000s and is the author of two books about his hometown of Durban. He currently heads the media cooperative...

Stéphane Riethauser was born in 1972 in Geneva, Switzerland. He holds a law degree from the University of Geneva. Over the years, he has been working as a teacher, gay activist, photographer, editor, journalist and translator. He is the author of “A visage découvert”,...

For seven years, Monica Rorvik has led the Film and Media Promotion unit at Wesgro, which is Cape Town and Western Cape region's Tourism Trade and Investment Promotion Agency. She previously worked as Durban International Film Festival assistant manager and headed its...

Mathieu Béjot is an international media executive. He was the executive director of TV France International, the association of French TV program exporters, from 2000 to 2018. He was previously cultural attaché in charge of creative industries at the French Embassy in...

Thandi Davids is a partner in StoryScope and has a passion for delivering untold African stories. She has owned a live production agency and has launched and run over 10 channels for National Geographic and Fox Channels. She is board member of the DFMI and Deputy...

Brian Newman, founder of Sub-Genre, consults on content development, distribution and marketing to help connect brands with filmmakers with audiences. Clients include: Patagonia, REI, IBM, Yeti Coolers, New York Times, Shopify Studios, Stripe, Unilever, and Zero Point...

Caitlin Robinson is a South African immersive media producer with an early background in traditional docs for the likes of BBC and Al Jazeera. Her documentary portrait series Watertight is a 3D printed specimen collection of New Yorkers and the homes they inhabit. It...