Ngakane's first film was this short anti-apartheid documentary, which was, in his own words, "the first film about the political situation in South Africa made from an African's point of view."
Dir: Lionel Ngakane
1962, 17 minutes, Documentary
"His first film, a documentary titled VUKANI/AWAKE (1962), deals with man's inhumanity to man, depicting the evils of apartheid and the predicament of black people in South Africa."
- Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike, QUESTIONING AFRICAN CINEMA
2011 - Anthology Film Archives (New York) - April 2011
* This screening is part of: UNITED WE STAND: SOUTH AFRICAN CINEMA DURING APARTHEID
Réal : Lionel Ngakane