Amy Louise Wilson
Performer, writer and cultural producer Amy Louise WILSON graduated from University of Cape Town and Rhodes University. As an actress, she has made appearances in numerous film, television and theatre productions, both local and international. In 2020, she won the Distell National Playwright Competition as a writer. With Francois Knoetze she founded Lo-Def Film Factory, a South African participatory community cinema initiative. Wilson is “committed to facilitating collectively minded, radical and subversive storytelling through film”.
Filmography
(selection) The Subterranean Imprint Archive (2021, VR), The Rock Speaks (co-dir. 2024, short)
Amy Louise Wilson op IFFR
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The Rock Speaks
Amy Louise Wilson, Francois Knoetze | 7' | South Africa | World premiere
The ecological degradation caused by the neo-colonial extraction of coveted Cobalt minerals. -
The Subterranean Imprint Archive
Francois Knoetze, Amy Louise Wilson | 15' | South Africa | World premiere
A memory palace full of deeply buried African history reveals itself in a Congolese uranium mine.