Isabella Matambanadzo

“As African cinema increasingly becomes a force to be reckoned with, filmmakers are multiplying efforts to use the big screen to tell stories about politics and history.”

“There’s even the scope for tourism now, and for microfinance to reach the mass market.”

“One of the greatest days I’ve had was when my mother came home and said today we had medicines, today we had water and power.”

“Mr. Mugabe spent 11 years in jail for Zimbabwe so we can't take away the role he played in our liberation, and we respect that phenomenally. But now he heads a government that is responsible for a lot of repression in the country, and the contradiction and the tension of living in such a society is very, very, very enormous.”

“It's more terrifying to be advocating for the ideal of an open society, you know, when you are in this environment that keeps shutting down, closing, closing--and where you are seen, not as a responsible patriot who questions the state but as a sell-out to Western interests.”