Lindy Wilson began filming the forced removals of people into segregated ‘group areas’ because she saw that history was being removed without a trace. With a borrowed 16mm camera, she shot her first film, Crossroads, in 1978.

Several years later, in the Last Supper in Horstley Street, she showed the removal of one of the last families from District Six. She has since made several documentaries and produced the 16-part TV series of documentary films, Unbanned: Films South Africans Were Not Allowed To See. In the same year, 1993, she won awards for A Traveling Song and began to write fiction. This new course was disrupted when, for two years, Wilson attended sessions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She decided to tell the extraordinary story of The Gugulethu Seven. This film will be completed just in time for its World Premiere at this (2000) Festival on Wednesday, 21st June 2000 at 6 pm. Lindy Wilson will introduce this screening.