LUCID PICTURES

Later that year we left the country to edit and distribute their film. We stayed away a year, too afraid to return to South Africa in case of repercussions from the secret police. They had friends who had been killed for their stance against Apartheid... At six I went filming with my father amongst the Bushmen in Botswana, and again when I was 12. He was assisting an old friend of his who was a filmmaker for the BBC. The story was about people forced off their land, this time to make way for diamond mining. In the bush I learned the basics of filming. How to hold a reflector, how to duck out of the shot on a canoe, how to set up camp, drive a truck, charge the batteries and label the tapes. It was heaven... Later, graduating from art-school, I realised that the art-world was not where I wanted to work. I thought of those happy times from my childhood in Botswana and began instead to make films. I took jobs wherever I could, from home videos for millionaires to real-estate videos for..