A history of Botswana cinema Part 1

In this part 1 of a 2 part series on the history of cinema in Botswana from the 1940s, he follows the story of Botswana's early film-makers.

This lecture comes at an interesting and perhaps even exciting time in the growth of cinema in this country. It marks the completion last week of shooting in Gaborone of a Hollywood feature film, The No1 Ladies Detective, not the first feature film shot in Botswana, but the first one with human actors. Previous films have featured wild animals, namely Whispers starring elephants with human voices, and Roar starring lions. Other films, that may have claimed to have been shot in Botswana, were not. The Gods Must Be Crazy was filmed in the Limpopo province of South Africa and in Namibia.