Sara D.

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Sara Gouveia is an award winning filmmaker. She has worked as a writer, director and cinematographer in feature and short documentaries, commercials, international campaigns and music videos. Sara’s mid-length documentary “Mama Goema: the Cape Town Beat In Five Movements” won the award for Best SA Documentary at the TriContinental Film Festival 2011 and was broadcast on SABC. Sara’s first feature length documentary "The Sound of Masks", set in Mozambique, had its World Premiere at IDFA 2018 and was officially selected for the Marrakech International Film Festival 2018, Hot Docs 2019, New York African Film Festival 2019, the Durban International Film Festival and DocLisboa 2019, amongst others. The film received the award for Best Feature Documentary at the Plateau International Film Festival 2019 as well as the 14th SAFTA Golden Horn Award for Best Cinematography as well as SAFTA nominations for Best Feature Documentary and Best Editing in 2020. The film is currently available on Showmax. Sara directed the documentary “Mother to Mother”, produced by The Ergo Company and Seashore Films, which premiered at the 2020 Encounters SA International Documentary Film Festival, where it was described as “an engaging and thought-provoking work of cinema that expands our collective humanity” . The film was awarded second place in the Adiaha Award for best documentary film and is currently available on Showmax.

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