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I Am Girls follows special crimes investigator Jodie Snyman (Erica Wessels) and police officer Ntombizonke Bapai (Hlubi Mboya) as they form an unlikely bond and race against the clock to stop a notorious child trafficking ring in South Africa.
Directed by Donovan Marsh (
Hunter, Killer), the thriller is set against the dying days of apartheid, and involved in the trafficking operation are, among other influential figures, powerful South African politicians. (
Speaking to
Channel24, Donovan, who is no stranger to tackling the seedy underbelly of the South African criminal world in his work, says: I ll be totally honest with you. The first time I encountered the project, there was already a kind of outline and a script. And I initially felt like the subject matter was too dark.
Donovan Marsh takes a hard-hitting look at child-trafficking in I Am All Girls
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Donovan Marsh has done it again. Famed for his gritty storytelling, the director delivers another captivating feature with Netflixâs âI Am All Girlsâ.
Marsh is no stranger to masterfully exploring the criminal underbelly of South Africa.
Heâs proven his Midas touch with the Safta award-winning feature, âDollar$ + White Pipesâ, back in 2005.
This time, he unpacks a global problem - human trafficking - via his two female leads: Jodie Snyman (Erica Wessels) and Ntombizonke Bapai (Hlubi Mboya). Both of them work for a special crimes unit tasked with looking into the perpetrators of this trafficking operation.