Oliver Schmitz

Oliver Schmitz, a South African director and screenwriter born in 1960, was first a disc jockey and a broadcaster of the township music of his time. He was twenty-seven when he made his first feature film. Since then he has directed five films for the cinema, four of them selected for the official selection at Cannes; one of them was shortlisted for the Oscar for best foreign-language film, and another won the audience award at the Berlinale in 2016, then an award for directing in his own country.

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• CinemaMapantsulaOliver Schmitz · 1988Cinema