Angie Mills

She has worked extensively on United Nations communications work across the continent. In feature films, she has been a script developer on the films “Max and Mona” and “The Bird Can’t Fly”starring Barbara Hershey. As a feature film producer, writer and director, through "Out of Motion Films" she has realised the feature comedy “Taka Takata” starring Trevor Noah and Kagiso Lediga and was also co-director and producer on the recent feature comedy “Down So Long" on Showmax. Her next film "DeadLock" is currently in development. Regarding festival work, Angie was Festival Director of the Joburg International Film Festival 2018 showcasing 40 international films in the city. As an academic, Angie has lectured in gender, race and film, experimental film as well as postcolonial and African cinema at the University of Witwatersrand and AFDA. As a black woman filmmaker Angie was a founding member of the organization “Women of the Sun.” She has participated at the Cannes Film Festival at the Pavilion du Soleil as a panelist alongside other African women filmmakers regarding women's film work on the African continent. She is founder and director of the film festival "Films on the Bay", in Simonstown, Cape Town, scheduled for 2024. It is the companion festival to the recently launched "Books on the Bay Festival".