Spending the week working in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. A pretty extraordinary place – old crashing up against new, Russian and Chinese influences. I just walk around in awe . . .
Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)
Umlilo Season 4 Finale: An Era Comes to an End . . .
Our Season Finale, Series Finale . . . it’s over. Feels like the time to go out (while we’re still on top) and sad to say goodbye to the stories, characters, cast and crew I’ve been with so long. Love to you all.
18 September, 2016
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“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths.” |
10 September, 2016
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“Whose little boy are you?” |
3 September, 2016
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“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.” |
28 August, 2016
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“No time to marry, no time to settle down; I’m a young woman, and I ain’t done runnin’ around.” |
20 August, 2016
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“Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.” |
13 August, 2016
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“I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.” |
6 August, 2016
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“I’ve done movies for certain reasons; I did ‘Anaconda’ because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn’t dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It’s like, ‘The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'” |
Lesbians on Fire
So last week on Umlilo we began the lesbian plot line – two of the patriarch Mnqobi’s wives begin a secret affair with one another. The response was huge, we trended globally twitter – one of the top 50 things talked about all over the world.
This is why I love TV – reaches millions, can at times challenge and spark. We’re running this line in a country where lesbians are still “correctively raped” to try and fix them. See the responses below, a mix of excitement, misogyny, intrigue . . .
