Don Edkins, one of the juries for International competition from South Africa just arrived Myanmar today. Don Edkins is a South African documentary filmmaker and producer based in Cape Town. He produced the Southern African series on truth and reconciliation Landscape of Memory (1998), and Steps for the Future (2001/04) – a collection of 38 films about Southern Africa in the time of HIV and AIDS. He was Executive Producer of the global documentary project Why Democracy? (2007) with 10 long and 15 short films screened by 48 broadcasters. Currently he is Executive Producer on the Steps International documentary project Why Poverty? with 8 long and 30 short documentary films screened globally by 70 broadcasters in November 2012. He has co-authored a book on documentary filmmaking – Steps by Steps.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:08:26 +0000