“South African documentary Music is My Life – Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, has been selected as South Africa’s submission for the Best International Feature Film for next year’s 96th Academy Awards (Oscars). The film is the directorial debut documentary produced by veteran filmmaker Carolyn Carew from Free Women Films and directed by Sowetan-born director Mpumi “Supa” Mbele.”
Selected by the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC), this is the first time a documentary has been selected since South Africa began submitting films for nomination in the International Feature Film category in the Annual Academy Awards in 1989.
Bringing a nomination or award home would be a fitting conclusion to the film about the life of the legendary leader of the country’s most iconic isicathamiya acapella group, which hailed from Ladysmith.
