Documentaries by year of production – Pt 2 (1997 to 2025)
“Thousands of empty shoes at Zoo Lake – a poignant testimony to victims of violent crime” – The Star, Monday July 21st 1997. “Rainbow Courage – A Tribute” written & directed by Kevin Harris in 1997 is a tribute to all South Africans affected by the violence & violent crime that wracked South African society post-1994. Grave new world – the dark side of the miracle of transformation from oppression to personal freedom; floating to the surface a tidal wave of organised & violent crime as syndicates & corrupt officials pull the triggers of street thugs with seeming impunity. Rainbow Courage – A Tribute is “a shattering depiction of the heroism of those South Africans, white & black, who have survived the crime wave engulfing the country. Allison, the woman raped and left for dead with her throat slit in Port Elizabeth; Rob, the Johannesburg businessman tortured with a hot iron by robbers; the family of a young Tembisa woman tortured & killed after being raped at a local school in the dead of night are just some. The fortitude & what can only be described as positiveness of such people, their determination to make their society a better place despite all that has happened to them, was truly moving and brought home the horror of the word “crime” as nothing else has.” The Sunday Independent – July, 26 1998.