HER first screenplay was about her mother; her latest, “Catch a Fire,” was suggested by her father. Shawn Slovo’s family history is inextricably linked to the modern history of her homeland, South ...

When screenwriter Shawn Slovo began writing “Catch a Fire” more than a decade ago, her approach to the factual story of South African freedom fighter Patrick Chamusso included fictional details ...

Shawn Slovo grew up surrounded by heroes. Her father, Joe Slovo, was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa who became a leading member of the African National Congress. Her mother, Ruth First, ...

Alison Owen and Debra Hayward’s Monumental Pictures is set to make a big screen biopic about Victorian mathematician and computer science visionary Ada Lovelace. Development is being supported by ...

JOHANNESBURG — No stranger to making films that probe uncomfortable pasts, Australian director Philip Noyce (“Rabbit Proof Fence,” “The Quiet American”) has spent several months in South Africa this ...

Eleven years ago, when screenwriter Shawn Slovo (A World Apart) approached South African Patrick Chamusso about making a film on Chamusso's life, the ex-political prisoner couldn't help but be a bit ...

As out-of-Africa dramas go these days, Catch a Fire is downright old-fashioned, a liberal political thriller about a noble black man who stands up to a white imperial monster. Directed with ...

Toronto — FILMMAKERS are suckers for a true story. It feels like most of the movies I’ve seen at the Toronto Film Festival this year are based on, inspired by or somehow fueled by a true story. Once ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Inspiration, it seems, is the easy part. Talk to any number of this year's buzzed-about original screenplay writers, and what lies beneath the surface is often a ...