Director’s bio
March 30, 2008
A multi-talented director with a typical south african energy, Aldo Lee has received awards and accolades all along his career. His debut feature length film, “The Double Life of Dona Ermelinda” won best documentary at Vues d’Afriques in Montreal as well as other prizes around the globe. He then went on to further explore questions of race and cultural identities with “White Farmers Black Land” which followed a group of South African farmers, still traumatised with the changes taking place in their country and emigrating to Mozambique to participate in an agricultural development project.
His other work both as a cameraman and a director include many collaborations with TV shows such as Striptease, Tracks as well as with various artists and choreographers such as Rachid Ouramdane or creating a four screen installation called Cinderella from Head to Toe.
With White Men Can’t Toyi-Toyi!, he aims to complete the trilogy of his South African saga and finally lay to rest his identity crisis caused by being born in Africa to a British father and a Portuguese mother; growing up in an Indian neighborhood and marrying a French woman who wants to live in Japan.
Filmography
Sacrifice (1993)
The Double Life of Dona Ermelinda (1995)
White Farmers Black Land (2000)
