His signature style is gritty and ultra-realistic storytelling, showing South Africa’s dark side, from homelessness to child rape.
The inclusion of his latest film in the Rapid Lion Film Festival may have just alerted the critics to his talent, but Mlingane Dube, 29, is already a familiar name to those in the local independent film-making scene, and the fans who love his content.
In 2013, he moved from his hometown, Soweto, to Durban to begin his job as a video-journalist with every intention to keep working towards his dream of being a filmmaker. Dube grew up in Soweto, where he was no stranger to stories of hardship, but he considers himself lucky to have been born to parents who were able to make a way out of that world for him.
With his father having never completed primary school and his mom having never reached tertiary level, Dube got to make his family proud, working his way to Boston Media House.The key difference between his work in news and film was that, in film, “one could create a light at the end of a tunnel”. The film, however, tells the story of a homeless couple, a man and woman whose livelihood depends on the boyfriend selling art until the woman falls pregnant.If that’s not dark enough for you, his film, selected to show at the Rapid Lion Film Festival, tells the very true story of a woman who catches her daughter’s rapist in the act and proceeds to kill him with her bare hands.
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