Meet Nomfundo

One of our digital arts students here in Durban, Nomfundo, is a very good actress. She loved performing today, but was even more excited about learning to film. She is involved in a drama group who do stage performance so the idea of camera angles and retakes was confusing to her until we explained the need and purpose for multiple takes when it comes time to editing an interesting clip. To her a retake is asked for only when something has gone wrong or when there is poor performance.

She soon became comfortable and told us about her acting group. Her father is not in the picture at all and her mother is seldom there for her. She lives with her grandmother, who also raised her. She wanted to have another place where she could spend her free time because her home without parents and other young siblings to play with can be depressing. She joined this drama group at a very young age. The group performs in the township (slum) functions like weddings. The drama group does these events for free, just to entertain people. They hope to get exposure so that one day she can realize her dream of performing in a real theater. Nomfundo is the girl in yellow. We’ll tell you more about her story as the week progresses.

Charles