Dying for Gold

Dying for Gold is a 2018 South African trilingual documentary film written and directed by duo Richard Pakleppa and Catherine Meyburgh.[1] The film is produced under the production banner Breathe Films and the film was predominantly shot in Lesotho.[2] The plot of the film depicts the untold real story about the mining in South Africa especially portrays the dying of gold miners due to silicosis and tuberculosis in South Africa, Mozambique, Lesotho and Malawi.[3][4] The film had its theatrical release on 16 October 2018 and received positive reviews from the critics.[5] The film was also screened in Mozambique and Botswana. It was also screened at the Johannesburg Film Festival on 15 November 2018.[6]

Dying for Gold
Directed byRichard Pakleppa
Catherine Meyburgh
Produced byCatherine Meyburgh
Based onMining in South Africa
Music byPhilip Miller
Edited byCatherine Meyburgh
Production
company
Breathe Films
Release date
  • October 16, 2018 (2018-10-16)
Running time
99 minutes
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageEnglish
Xhosa
Southern Sotho

Synopsis

For over 120 years, hundreds of thousands of black men from the countries of Southern Africa have left their families to dig for gold and produce the wealth of South Africa. Then over 500,000 families welcome their loved ones back from the mines in a much worse state than they were when they initially started mining for the gold.[7]

References
  1. Davis, Rebecca. "SILICOSIS: Dying for Gold: New documentary lays bare the stark debt SA owes its miners". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  2. Contributor (2019-04-29). "Catherine Meyburgh and Richard Pakleppa's Dying for Gold premieres at Hot Docs in Canada". Screen Africa. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  3. "Dying for Gold". www.dyingforgold.com. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  4. "Dying for Gold". Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  5. "Dying for Gold Documentary Confronts South Africa's Gold Mining History". Screen Fervor. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  6. "'Dying for Gold' doccie to headline at Joburg Film Festival". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  7. "Icarus Films: Dying for Gold". icarusfilms.com. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
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