Mark Dornford-May

Mark Dornford-May (b. 1955, United Kingdom) worked in Great Britain for 25 years, where he founded the Broomhill Opera company. This, his second film, was also made in association with the stage company Dimpho Di Kopane, comprising thirty exceptionally talented South African actors and singers. The ensemble was founded in 2000, when Dornford-May and Charles Hazlewood, the artistic and musical director of the Broomhill Opera company in London at the time, returned to Cape Town. The new ensemble was hugely successful, they made guest appearances in London and travelled on tour to the USA, Australia, Canada, Turkey and Great Britain. The director made his debut film with Dimpho Di Kopane in 2004, an original adaptation of the opera Carmen entitled Carmen from Khayelitsha (U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha), which won a Golden Bear at the Berlin IFF last year. This film was also screened in the Horizons section at last year's Karlovy Vary IFF.

MFF Karlovy Vary