screening format
Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov)
aspect ratio
2.35:1 (CinemaScope)
sound format
Dolby Surround
languages
Sotho
Subtitles
Englisch, Deutsch
screening format
DCP
aspect ratio
2.35:1 (CinemaScope)
sound format
Dolby Surround
languages
Sotho
Subtitles
Englisch, Deutsch
SHEPHERDS demonstrates how cattle are constitutive for the entirety of social life in Lesotho. The film was shot in a prison where cattle thieves are imprisoned. They talk about their lives and why they were incarcerated. For every stolen cow they face one year in prison.
director
Teboho Edkins
Editing
Cédric Le Floc'h
DOP
Samuel Lahu
Production
Don Edkins
Script
Teboho Edkins
Sound Design
Julian Cropp
Festivals
2020
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
(Erster Preis der Jury des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW; Preis der Ökumenischen Jury)
2020
FestCurtasBH - Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil
2020
KFFK/Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany
Production
- Day Zero Film UG
- Teboho Edkins
Distribution
- Day Zero Film UG
- Teboho Edkins
Sales
- Day Zero Film UG
- Teboho Edkins
Teboho Edkins
Born 1980 in Tennessee, USA;
grew up in Lesotho, southern Africa;
lives and works in Cape Town and Berlin
Filmography
2004 Ask Me I'm Positive
2005 Looking Good
2005 True Love
2006 Gangster Project 1
2008 Kinshasa 2.0
2011 Thato
2011 Gangster Project
2013 Gangster Backstage
2015 Coming of Age
2016 Initiation
2017 I am Sheriff
2020 Days of Cannibalism