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triomfmovie's profile Michael Raeburn / Member since August 2007 / Last seen 2 years ago

Michael Raeburn has achieved international acclaim as a director, screenwriter, and novelist. And yes, from his youth onward, he has won some of the most prestigious awards offered worldwide to an independent filmmaker. But much more importantly, over a career that has seen him release films in five different decades (he started young, kept working, and has persevered against the odds), he has laughed loudly at the absurdities of Africa, and given us a vision of how profound its dignity might be. His most important distinction may well be this one: He was banned from his own native land because a film he made 1969 told the truth about the racist regime that ran what was once known as Rhodesia; then, in our own decade, he was once again banned, putting his life and personal property at risk, when he made yet another film that explored and examined what had happened to his country, Zimbabwe, under its current regime. How many of us would have dared take one of those risks? How many of us would have managed to make movies in the process,many movies, and manage to get them seen? Currently, Michael is working on a new film, Triomf, a hilarious horrendous comedy based on the award-winning novel by Marlene van Niekerk.

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Triomf Movie

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Follow the film production of the hilariously horrendous tragi-comedy called Triomf, based on Marlene van Niekerk's award-winning novel. We will "live-blog" production fr…

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