Christopher Vourlias As a young, Black woman growing up in Soweto, the sprawling township built by South Africa’s apartheid government on the outskirts of Johannesburg, Lala Tuku had dreams of making movies.
But after making inroads into the local industry in the mid-2000s, she found her path to the director’s chair blocked. “There were no people that were Black, that were female, that were directors,” she says. “The opportunities were very limited.”Tuku found herself in front of the camera instead, acting for several years before evolving into an executive producer, industry consultant, and most recently co-chair of the Africa Rising Intl.
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