Tsholofelo Monare
- Editor
- Cinematographer
Tsholofelo Same Monare is a mother & award winning film maker & traditional healer. Her 18 career as a creative director, film editor & podcast journalist has been a tool for storytelling, sacred activism, bringing healing to others and preservation of indigenous knowledge systems.
Same uses her expertise in media to birth creative changes during the most tumultuous shifts in humanity today. She supports creatives, businesses & communities to creatively birth greater levels of justice, equality and integrity in the work space through heart-centered leadership.
Garden of My Ancestors, her short film as director and editor, was selected by the Guardian newspaper as one of the "10 African films to watch out for".The film screened at festivals such as Durban, Encounters, Nouveaux Cinémas Documentaires, Montreal International Black Film Festival, Luxor African Film Festival, Silent River Film Festival, Cape Town Black Filmmakers Film Festival, and the Female Power exhibition at Arnhem, Netherlands. Dk, Where Everything is Okay, a documentary she co-directed and produced, also was screened at the Female Power exhibition.
Same edited the BBC documentary Scars, which won the Best Sound in a Documentary Award at the DSTV Talent Incubator. She was the cinematographer for the documentary Soul Train, which received the Gold Panda Award for Best Photography in a Documentary at the Sichuan Television Festival.
She has worked on the editing of a number of shorts in the NFVF Female Only Filmmakers Project produced by Bongiwe Selane. She is an alumna of the Berlinale's Durban Talent Campus program.
Same uses her expertise in media to birth creative changes during the most tumultuous shifts in humanity today. She supports creatives, businesses & communities to creatively birth greater levels of justice, equality and integrity in the work space through heart-centered leadership.
Garden of My Ancestors, her short film as director and editor, was selected by the Guardian newspaper as one of the "10 African films to watch out for".The film screened at festivals such as Durban, Encounters, Nouveaux Cinémas Documentaires, Montreal International Black Film Festival, Luxor African Film Festival, Silent River Film Festival, Cape Town Black Filmmakers Film Festival, and the Female Power exhibition at Arnhem, Netherlands. Dk, Where Everything is Okay, a documentary she co-directed and produced, also was screened at the Female Power exhibition.
Same edited the BBC documentary Scars, which won the Best Sound in a Documentary Award at the DSTV Talent Incubator. She was the cinematographer for the documentary Soul Train, which received the Gold Panda Award for Best Photography in a Documentary at the Sichuan Television Festival.
She has worked on the editing of a number of shorts in the NFVF Female Only Filmmakers Project produced by Bongiwe Selane. She is an alumna of the Berlinale's Durban Talent Campus program.