Experiencing Interruptions?

Blind Eye

Zandile is a young vibrant auditor with the Auditor General is driven to root out corruption wherever she finds it, she is dispatched to go and verify the municipality assets of the town of Esgodini before its audit begins. Her arrival puts Gogo Dlamini, the town's enterprising businesswoman on high alert setting in motion an interesting chain of events.

  • Mengameli Nhlabathi
    Director
    Imbewu
  • Mengameli Nhlabathi
    Writer
    Imbewu
  • Leo Phiri
    Producer
    Joko Ya Hao
  • Thembi Mtshali-Jones
    Key Cast
    "Gogo Dlamini"
    Imbewu
  • Noxolo Mathula
    Key Cast
    "Zandile"
    Uzalo
  • Siyabonga Shibe
    Key Cast
    "Nhanhla"
    Isithunzi
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 30, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    70,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    South Africa
  • Country of Filming:
    South Africa
  • Language:
    Zulu
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Mengameli Nhlabathi

Menga is a South African based writer and director whose career started as a 2nd assistant director on SAFTA award winning series Swartwater Season 1 in 2013 produced by Quizzical Pictures. He went on to become a 1st AD on Hole in the wall (Netflix) in 2015 and 1st Assistant director in Uzalo Season 2 that same year and eventually became a director in 2017. Menga wrote and directed his first Tv Movie in 2015 called Dali, an Ekasi story for South African free to air channel Etv. He has continued with Independent projects and one his latest film is called Blind Eye, it is a made for Tv film funded by the KZN Film Commision that he wrote and directed. His other film is a short film called Double Life which will air on BET (DSTV channel 129) this August. Menga is also a full time director on Imbewu the Seed which airs weekdays on South African free to air channel ETV. His dream and vision is to grow his production company Getsum Media into a self sustaining business that creates jobs, develops young talent and makes quality content that tells our stories to the world.

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Director Statement

THIS FILM IS INSPIRED BY THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO CONTINUE TO FIGHT THE SCOURGE OF CORRUPTION IN A DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA. SINCE 2015 THE SOUTH AFRICAN PROVINCE OF KWAZULU-NATAL HAS RECORDED OVER 90 ASSASINATIONS AND NUMEROUS ACCOUNTS OF INTIMIDATION AND THREATS OF VIOLENCE LINKED TO CORRUPTION. BLIND EYE TELLS A SIMPLE STORY THAT TRIES TO MAKE SENSE OF THIS COMPLEX PHENOMENA.