When veteran actor Euodia Samson took a young actor from a small town under her wing years ago, little did she know she would be sharing the screen with her in a major television drama series.
The tenth annual Silwerskermfees Film Festival, which celebrates SA movie making, was also a space where female filmmakers and actors spoke out about underrepresentation, being outnumbered in male dominated meetings and the frustrating prevalence of on-screen female stereotypes. Leading a discussion entitled Women in Film and TV, discussion leader, senior manager M-Net of South African reality, films and co-productions Kaye Ann Williams, said women are not equally represented in the indust.