Documentary highlights hunger crisis
Short film captures the daily experiences of a team who refused to let others starve during lockdown.
Youth Day saw the premiere of Indlala at the Brakpan Synagogue, which is also home to The Harvest Centre of Judaism and Equality.
The documentary follows the journey of the Harvest Covid-19 Relief Project during lockdown.
Filmed by Yakima Waner, who is the founder of The Harvest Project NPO and an award-winning documentarian, the mobile filmed documentary shines a light on the crisis of hunger during the pandemic.
Indlala means hunger in isiZulu and the documentary shares the day-to-day experiences during lockdown – moments of complete mayhem, moments of joy and tears and moments when the team didn’t know how they were going to continue feeding hundreds of starving people a day.
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The Harvest Covid-19 Relief Project was started a week before the National State of Disaster was declared due to the pandemic.
The relief programme and feeding scheme were created to help minorities in the community who receive no government assistance, such as foreign nationals and especially children and the elderly.
They fed hundreds of people every day and also collected food items to be distributed to families in need.
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The team would travel to the Plastic City informal settlement to feed beneficiaries and meals were also distributed from the synagogue.
They raised awareness about Covid-19 and also made and provided masks to the vulnerable, as well as gloves and sanitiser.
Other documentaries filmed by Waner include The Harvest, which celebrates the children and women of Plastic City and To Wake Buddhi, a social and environmental awareness documentary.
The Harvest was named best documentary at the Echo BRICS Film Festival in Moscow in 2020 and To Wake Buddhi won the best short film category in the same film festival in 2018.
