Ubuntu — A Cape Town Story
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Coming Soon · A No Excuse Films Documentary
One of the most dangerous cities on Earth. And one of the most loved. We didn't go for the headlines — we went to speak with the people living in them.
Read the storyThe crime doesn't define Cape Town.
The people who call it home do.
From the film · Jamie Clark & Sam Seeley, No Excuse Films
Synopsis
Cape Town is a city of contradictions — postcard beauty and staggering inequality, world-class hospitality and one of the highest violent crime rates on Earth. Most coverage stops at the statistics. Ubuntu — A Cape Town Story goes further.
Filmed across townships, suburbs and the spaces in between, two outsiders — a former UK police officer and a former Royal Marine, both fathers — sit down with the people who actually live this city: families, community workers, gang members, police, faith leaders and survivors. What emerges is harder and more hopeful than the headlines: a story about violence, yes, but also about dignity, community and the southern African idea of ubuntu — "I am because we are".
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The filmmakers
Producer · Presenter
Jamie Clark
Former UK police officer turned documentary producer and on-camera presenter. Spent years on the front line of British policing before turning the lens outward to tell stories that go beyond the soundbite.
Director · Cinematographer
Sam Seeley
Former UK Royal Marine Commando. Now a documentary director and cinematographer who's built a career on calm, careful filmmaking in places most cameras don't go.
Longtime friends. Both have faced danger; both are fathers — parenthood is the shared lens through which they meet every story.
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