Palesa Shongwe
Palesa Nomanzi Shongwe is a South African filmmaker, scholar, and Fulbright recipient currently working as a writer, and Script Editor in both television and film. She has written and directed three short films, Atrophy (and the fear of fading) 2010, which won the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival in 2011 and has been featured at numerous festivals, including most recently, Vision Du Reel and VideoEx; uNomalanga and the Witch (2015), which won at the Durban International Film Festival (2015) and Film Africa, UK (2016); and most recently, as part of the 5x5x5 Residency, she completed, an experimental short -‘11 to 19’. She is an alumnus of the Realness Institute (2020) and currently developing her first feature film, Mubi/. She has taught film history, theory, and screenwriting at the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Arts.