Meanwhile in Mamelodi (2012)

Set against the raucous backdrop of the 2010 World Cup MEANWHILE IN MAMELODI is a beautifully crafted portrait of a place and one familys daily life inside it The Mtsweni family lives in the Pretoria Township of the title in the district known as Extension 11 Their world is a ramshackle collection of corrugated tin dwellings and makeshift shops open sewers littered with debris and redearth rectangles filled with soccerplaying children and teens Seventeenyearold Mosquito is one of those kids As she studies for math tests flirts with boys and shops with her best friend her father Steven prepares his tuck shop for the promise of cashflush tourists Meanwhile his wife struggles with mental illness The Mtswenis lives unfold as the Cup brings new hope to the ravaged town Despite the poverty around her Mosquito insists this is not her parents country She is the face of South Africas future part of a new generation free to do all things