Palesa Shongwe

Palesa Shongwe is an independent filmmaker, scriptwriter and teacher. Her first film, Atrophy, won the Jury Award at the Oberhausen Short FF in Germany. She recently completed uNomalanga and the Witch, which follows newlywed Nomalanga, who moves into a new neighborhood with her husband and finds herself intrigued by a mysterious widow everyone suspects killed her late husband.