Helena Nogueira
Helena Nogueira is a South African film director,[1] "the first woman to direct a feature film in South Africa".[2]
Life
Helena Nogueira was born in Mozambique.[2] She studied at the University of Natal and then the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris.[1]
Nogueira's first film was a documentary about Athol Fugard,[1] and she has subsequently directed a documentary on Ingrid Jonker. Her 1988 feature film Quest for Truth, Quest for Love was based on Gertrude Stein's first novel, Q.E.D..[3] It featured lesbian attraction between an activist and an ecologist, played by Jana Cilliers and Sandra Prinsloo, against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa.[4]
Films
- Documentaries
- Fugard's People, 1982
- Ingrid Jonker: Her Lives and Time..., 2002
- Feature films
- Quest for Truth, Quest for Love / Quest for Love / Fire in their Hearts, 1988
- The Good Fascist, 1992
References
- ^ a b c Roy Armes (2008). "Nogueira, Helena". Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Indiana University Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-253-35116-2.
- ^ a b Jill Nelmes; Jule Selbo (2015). Women Screenwriters: An International Guide. Springer. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-137-31237-2.
- ^ Jane Sloan (2007). Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films about Women. Scarecrow Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-4616-7082-7.
- ^ Botha, Martin P. (2014). "Queering African Film Aesthetics: A Survey from the 1950s to 2003: Portrayal of Homosexuality in International Films". In Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike (ed.). Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse. Lexington Books. pp. 75–6. ISBN 978-0-7391-8094-5.