Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle.
Arnold Rothstein, nicknamed "The Brain", was an American racketeer, crime boss, businessman, and gambler who became a kingpin of the Jewish Mob in New York City. Rothstein was widely reputed to have organized corruption in professional athletics, including conspiring to fix the 1919 World Series. He was also a mentor of future crime bosses Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Bugsy Siegel, and numerous others.
Arnold Vosloo is a South African-American actor. He is famous for roles such as Imhotep in The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), Colonel Coetzee in Blood Diamond (2006), Pik van Cleef in Hard Target (1993), Dr. Peyton Westlake in Darkman II (1995) and Darkman III (1996), Zartan in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), sniper Jacob Broadsky in the TV series Bones and terrorist Habib Marwan in the fourth season of 24.
William J. Monahan is an American screenwriter and novelist. His second produced screenplay was The Departed, a film that earned him a Writers Guild of America Award and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Jurnee Diana Smollett is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress appearing on television sitcoms, including On Our Own (1994–1995) and Full House (1992–1994). She gained greater recognition with her role in the critically acclaimed Kasi Lemmons directed film Eve's Bayou (1997), which earned her a Critics' Choice Movie Award.
Gregory James Nava is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
Murder on a Sunday Morning is a 2001 documentary film directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. The documentary centers around the Brenton Butler case, in which a fifteen-year-old African-American boy was wrongfully accused of murder in Jacksonville, Florida. The film follows Butler's public defense attorneys as they piece together the narrative and how the police coerced Butler into confessing. It received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002.
Before and After is a 1996 American crime drama film based on Rosellen Brown's 1992 novel of the same name about two parents who must deal with the after effects when their son is accused of murder. The movie was directed by Barbet Schroeder and starred Meryl Streep as Dr. Carolyn Ryan, Liam Neeson as Ben Ryan, Edward Furlong as Jacob Ryan, and Julia Weldon as Judith Ryan. Alfred Molina, John Heard, and Alison Folland appear in supporting roles.
National Women's Day is a South African public holiday celebrated annually on 9 August. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws that required South Africans defined as "black" under The Population Registration Act to carry an internal passport, known as a passbook, that served to maintain population segregation, control urbanisation, and manage migrant labour during the apartheid era. The first National Women's Day was celebrated on 9 August 1995. In 2006, a reenactment of the march was staged for its 50th anniversary, with many of the 1956 march veterans.
Private Confessions is a 1996 Swedish drama film directed by Liv Ullmann and written by Ingmar Bergman. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
Rogue Star Films is an independent feature film company based in Cape Town, South Africa, owned by Ross Garland.
Ian Gabriel is a South African film and commercials director based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Antony Thomas is an English documentary filmmaker, director and author who has made films for, among others, Channel 4, the BBC and HBO.
Ross Garland is a South African film producer and founder of the production company Rogue Star Films. He has produced films including Confessions of a Gambler, Big Fellas, U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, and Spud. He won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2005.
Down for Life is a 2009 American dramatic film directed by Alan Jacobs based on the true story of a 15-year-old Latina gang leader in Watts, Los Angeles. The story follows one day in her life as she struggles to break away from her gang. Made in cinéma vérité style, the film stars many local teens, with veteran actors such as Danny Glover, Laz Alonso, Kate del Castillo, and Snoop Dogg in supporting roles. Down for Life focuses on the gritty reality of gang life and the racial tension surrounding it. Ultimately, the film’s message is one of hope to those in tough circumstances while shedding light on a pressing social issue.
Tatiana Niculescu is a Romanian writer and former senior editor of the Bucharest Bureau of the BBC WS. She previously worked for almost 10 years as a radio presenter and producer of the World Service in London. Her non fiction novel Deadly Confession was published in 2006 by Humanitas Publishing House. It was followed by Judges’ Book. A second edition and e-book of Deadly Confession were issued by Polirom Publishing House in 2012. The novels caused a sensation in her native country and inspired the film director Cristian Mungiu who produced and directed the film Beyond the Hills based on the same novels. The film won the award for the best screenplay at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. In 2007 a stage version of the books directed by the American-Romanian director Andrei Serban had been performed at La MaMa Theatre in New York. In 2008, the theatre performance was staged in Paris at the Béhague Palace. Peter Brook and Pascal Bruckner attended the performance.
Tazza: The Hidden Card is a 2014 South Korean crime film directed by Kang Hyeong-cheol based on Huh Young-man and Kim Se-yeong's manhwa of the same name. It is followed by Tazza: One Eyed Jack, released in 2019.
The Southern Africa Freedom Trail is a route running through Lusaka, Zambia that leads to a number of historic sites significant to the region's anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggles.
Rayda Jacobs is a South African writer and film-maker.
The Middle Children is a collection of fourteen short stories written by South African writer Rayda Jacobs, based mostly on her experience living through apartheid and published in Canada in 1994. Through these short stories the reader learns about apartheid, exile, and living as a black person who can pass as white, as well as the struggles that come with it, through the main character's eyes.
