The Lost Carts of the Karoo (2019) Full documentary

The Lost Carts of the Karoo is a short documentary following the Louw family as they leave a lifetime on the road, and settle into the modern world on the edges of the small Karoo town of Colesberg, South Africa.

Made over seven years, the film chronicles the final days of Oupa Lodewyk Slinger, one of the last Karretjie Mense.

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FESTIVALS:

Winner:

Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival - "Made in South Africa" Audience Award (South Africa) 2019

Official Selections:

Silicon Valley African Film Festival (USA) 2019
Lift-Off Global Network First-time Filmmaker (UK) 2019
Young African Filmmakers award - Afrika Film Festival in Leuven (Belgium) 2020 .

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CREDITS:

A film by Timothy Gabb

CAST
Oupa Lodewyk Slingers
Ouma Sina Louw
Isak Louw
Hanneline Louw
Salman Louw
Poppie Swarts

CREW
Timothy Gabb
Russell Bruns
Christo du Toit
Daneel Knoetze
Adam Little
Jonathan Cornelius
Karen Wieffering
Alex Noble

SOUND:
Gustav Stutterheim

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
Timothy Gabb
Caroline Gabb
Gustav Stutterheim
Jonathan Cornelius
David Mostert

SPECIAL THANKS TO
Professor Michael de Jongh
Riana Steyn
Richard Wicksteed

Archive Footage:
What Happened to the Donkey People? Third Degree by Charlene Stanley (2005)
Bou van 'n Nasie (1938)

Music (Creative Commons):
Kyle Preston - Rise
Kevin MacLeod - Calming
Kevin MacLeod - Clean Soul
Kyle Preston - A Sea Change

This project is supported by award-winning South African playwright, Athol Fugard:

This project will be, to my reckoning, an important contribution to a body of artistic and scholarly work that seeks to give a voice to marginalized peoples in South Africa. Its great strength in this regard is that it tells the individual story of a family, and thereby resists the temptation to generalize lived experience. For too long has South Africa focused on its dominant narratives, and ignored the stories on the edges. This project, with its focus on the karretjie people of the Karoo, attempts to do just that and, as such, deserves all the support it can get.

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Online stories:

The poorest of the poor: The Karretjie Mense of the Great Karoo by Timothy Gabb
groundup.org.za/article/poorest-poor-karretjie-mense-great-karoo/

The Karoo's dwindling cart people still hear the call of the road by Daneel Knoetze
mg.co.za/article/2015-04-09-the-karoos-dwindling-cart-people-still-hear-the-call-of-the-road

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