Chantel Clark is a South African director and screenwriter. Chantel’s script for her directorial feature debut “Wit Gesigte (Pale Faces)”, was selected for the Sundance Institute’s January 2019Screenwriters Lab, IFP’s 41st IFP Week Project Forum, and was a SFFILM Spring2019 Rainin Grant Finalist. Asa Graduate of the Film MFA Program at Columbia University, her thesis film “Our Albertinia” was awarded a 2018 National Board of Review Student Grant and screened at over 25 international film festivals. Chantel has received her Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Production and in Television Drama from the University of Cape Town. She is currently an ambassador for Girls in Film South Africa.
She meets up with Oumar for an intimate conversation covering her passion for writing stories.
AuthenticA
AuthenticA is an exciting and empowering programme funded by the Story Board collective for African episodic screenwriters.
The programme is presented in partnership with Realness Institute, a South Africa based non-profit organisation, which aims to empower Africans to tell their stories from an unapologetically African point of view.
AuthenticA offered to four African screenwriters the unique opportunity to develop their original stories, of all genres, in episodic form.
The Spot Geneva was happy to meet the screen writers during their residence in Geneva for four conversations with our host Oumar Touré Franzen.
They talk about their inspiration, their approach to screen writing and more.