15.07.2022 Reel Nights
Our 1st installment of Reel Nights featured a screening of the action-packed South African film, Rage of A Lioness, followed by a Q&A session with Behind Her Lens Visuals’s Mbali Mashaba, director Adze Ugah and the lead, Samela Tylebooi.
About The Film Rage of A Lioness
A vengeance-filled mother, enraged by the miscarriage of justice over her daughter’s brutal murder, traps the ruthless gangster responsible and his gang of killers in an abandoned factory – to elicit a taped confession but nothing goes according to plan, when the bait for the trap happens to be the gangster’s younger brother and her dead daughter’s lover.
About The Director Adze Ugah
Adze Ugah has directed several television drama series for both the SABC and DSTV cable TV platforms over the past 11 years, with directing credits on dramas such as Zone 14, Isibaya, Jacob’s Cross, Society, Skwizas, Room 9, My perfect Family, Tshisa III, Mfolozi Street, to mention a few. In 2010 his documentary feature, The Burning Man, was awarded 4 Golden horn awards under the auspices of the (SAFTAS).
In 2014 and 2015, Ugah was awarded the Golden Horn at the SAFTA’s for Best Director for his work on the Mzansi Magic daily drama, Isibaya, produced by the Bomb Shelter Film and Television Company. Mrs Right Guy, a romantic comedy he directed, under the NFVF slate films, was the second highest grossing local South African film in the cinemas in the year 2016. Rage of a lioness, an action thriller, is his most recent film, with a sequel currently in development.
Adze Ugah has served in various film training and skill transfer capacities such as NFVF Youth FilmMakers project, as a Directing Mentor. As well as a mentor for the Durban International Film festival talent campus. He has been a visiting lecturer at WITS drama school, Tshwane University of Technology, Film/drama department, University of Johannesburg film faculty and the South African school of Motion Picture Medium and Live performance. Ugah has also served in various adjudicating capacities such as The MUSE awards for the Writers Guild of South Africa, the Africa Magic viewers choice awards for Mnet and the Baka Forum Documentary film festival in Karlsruhe, Germany.