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Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a South African screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart, based on her childhood under apartheid. She is the daughter of South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First.
Shawn Slovo. Writer: A World Apart. Shawn Slovo was born in 1950. Shawn is a writer and producer, known for A World Apart (1988), Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013) and Catch a Fire (2006).
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Screenwriter Shawn Slovo. Her first film, "A World Apart," is the autobiographical story of the relationship between a white woman, committed to fighting apartheid, and her 13-year-old daughter, who is struggling to cope with the political choices her mother has made.
Shawn Slovo — The Movie Database (TMDB) Biography. Born in South Africa in 1950 as daughter to white anti-apartheid activists Joe Slovo and Ruth First, she grew up in London after the family in 1964 arrived in the UK as political refugees.
Exiled South African writer Shawn Slovo has just returned from a screening tour of A World Apart. As we walk down the narrow twisty path, Shawn tells me how responses to the film differed in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and amongst men and women.
Apr 15, 2007 · Shawn Slovo. The daughter of prominent anti-apartheid campaigners talks about her new film. Read more.
Nov 5, 2019 · Eleven years ago, when screenwriter Shawn Slovo (A World Apart) approached South African Patrick Chamusso about making a film on Chamusso's life, the ex-political prisoner couldn't help but be...
