Xoliswa Sithole

BAFTA & Peabody award-winning producer & director

Xoliswa Sithole is a 2 time BAFTA and Peabody awarding winning producer/director who is drawn to films focusing on social justice, human rights and poverty alleviation. She produced the documenta­ry Shouting Silent (Showtime) which explored the vulnera­bilities of young girls who lost their mothers to HIV – having lost her own mother to HIV/Aids herself. She worked with True Vision TV – UK as the SA co-producer on Or­phans of Inkandla nominated for an International Emmy nomination.  She was one of the Producers on a channel 4 Documentary South Africa’s Lost Girls with True Vision and was nomina­ted for a BAFTA.

Her BBC documentary Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children was shot entirely undercover. Xoliswa Sithole has just completed directing a series called Free at Last on South Africa’s unanswered questions and is finishing a documentary called Let Then Die them Quietly on how South Africa, Brazil and India fought big Pharma to have access for cheaper medicines.

Xoliswa Sithole is currently developing a project called‚ Mandela Man of Peace and a 3 part series on Climate Justice. As one of her many passions Xoliswa runs a film festival focusing on 16 days of activism and vio­lence against women and children in South Africa which explores Mandela’s global peace efforts. She is a member of BAFTA, a founding member of filmmakers against racism.