News24 | EXTRACT | Oliver Schmitz explains how he and Thomas Mogotlane made classic SA movie Mapantsula
Mapantsula was the first South African film to screen in competition at the Cannes film festival, yet it had been made on the fly, guerrilla-style, with a fake script to distract the SA censors. Writer-director Oliver Schmitz and writer-actor Thomas Mogotlane had developed the real script in secret, over years.