The Bang Bang Club

1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?

Personally I liked so much the stories about these photographers and their role for spread the violence of the Apartheid system in South Africa. This club of photographers through their work shows the brutal repression of the racial government against of the black South Africa population.



Real photograph of Greg Marianovich, winner of the Pulitzer in 1991. 

And did not like that the film gives the 
greatest importance to the life of photographers over the struggle of blak people for their liberation and achieve a democratic system. 


2.  How does the film make you think about your future role as journalists and film makers/producers/creators/directors?

Well, I think in many things when watching this film, for example, the importance of photography and journalism itself to show social problems in other parts of the world, where people fight for their human rights. In this sense, I would like to work on documentaries on social, cultural, economic and environmental issues. 


3.  In this film, and various of the other films, we have seen how black South Africans went to vote massively in April 1994 to seal the downfall of the apartheid system with the electoral triumph of Nelson Mandela and the ANC, now more than 20 years later, we see many of the problems originated during the apartheid are still present such as land inequality, class inequality, unemployment, etc.

How have the dreams from the anti-apartheid struggle played out since the ANC has been in power? (Remember to use the article South Africa’s Coming Two-Party System)

To answer this question, I would like to compare the current system of Chile with the South African system, because these two societies have implemented the neoliberal model, therefore, inequality is the most important problem for these two countries.

The peoples of Chile and South Africa were victims of two dictatorial systems, based on fascism and social and racial segregation. But there was an opening towards popular elections, although at present the same social, economic and cultural inequalities that are a structural part of the system in both countries are maintained.