Jahmil X.T. Qubeka

September 2017 Award-Winning Filmmaker and screenwriter Jahmil X.T. Qubeka's career has spanned over 15 years covering an entire spectrum of filmmaking disciplines. Most notably, his documentary and feature film work has enjoyed screenings at various prestigious international film festivals including Toronto International Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival (Korea), Dubai Film Festival amongst others. In 2005 an AIDS documentary he directed for Sesame Street won the prestigious Peabody Award in America for best actuality programming. Among many successes in his career, Jahmil was the 2014 South African Standard bank Young Artist of the year in the Film category. His second feature film Of Good Report (2013) has the inauspicious reputation of being the first feature film to be effectively banned in Post-Apartheid South Africa. The film went on to garner many international plaudits and awards. It had it's World premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival in 2013. It is also the first African film to be selected in official competition at the London International Film Festival in 2013. The film went win the BAFTA LA Best Feature Prize at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2014. It also won best feature along with a plethora of other awards at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in Nigeria. It also took an unprecedented seven statues at the South African Film and Television Awards in 2014. Jahmil is working on several directorial projects including the poignant Sew the Winter to my Skin which has been selected for the exclusive Cannes L'Atelier programme for 2017 and will go into production in November 2017, the football film "The Kings of Kwano" as well as the epic South African boxing tale "Knuckle City".