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Meg Rickards

Directing

Biography

Meg Rickards is a successful film and documentary director who studied at UCT and in London. In this conversation she talks about interviews in the documentary 1994: The Bloody Miracle with Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Constand Viljoen, Jacob Zuma and the AWB.

Known For

Tess
6.9

When sex worker Tess falls pregnant, she has to fight to keep her past from swallowing her whole.

Tess

2016
Atlantis
N/A

When tomboy taxi-driver Ra'ida's rebellious younger brother Marid goes missing, she turns to her powerful family for help. She is determined to find out who killed her brother and ensure justice, above all, prevails.

Atlantis

2021
Land Of Thirst
N/A

Pereceval Gibbon's classic novel Margaret Harding, Land of Thirst arrives on the big screen courtesy of director Meg Rickards. Khanyiso Phalo was the son of an African chief. As a young boy, Khanyiso was separated from his family by British soldiers and sent to study medicine in England. Years later, in 1913, Khanyiso returns to Africa at the height of racist Colonial rule. There, he meets and falls in love with an English woman named Margaret Harding. Their romance violently protested by scornful settlers and vicious soldiers alike, the couple resorts to hiding, lying, and cheating in order to keep their love alive and escape the people who would see them killed.

Land Of Thirst

2008
1994: The Bloody Miracle
10.0

As South Africa celebrates its 20th anniversary of the advent of democracy in 1994, it is difficult to believe the ‘Mandela miracle’ nearly didn’t happen. In an orgy of countrywide violence, some were intent on derailing the first free elections. Now, for the first time, those responsible for countless deaths and widespread mayhem explain how they nearly brought South Africa to its knees. 1994: The Bloody Miracle is a chilling look at what these hard men did to thwart democracy, and at how they have now made an uneasy peace with the ‘Rainbow Nation’ in their own different ways.

1994: The Bloody Miracle

2014
Kaalgat Karel
4.0

A serial streaker and a paramedic set the stage for the Romcom of the year.

Kaalgat Karel

2021
Pavement Aristocrats - The Bergies of Cape Town
N/A

Looks at a group of homeless people, the Bergies, in Cape Town, South Africa. Through a series of interviews, the film traces the Bergie community back to their Khoisan roots, outlines colonial dispossession, and looks at problems with alcohol dependency. It also gives the community a chance to tell their story, by zooming in on the daily life of two couples

Pavement Aristocrats - The Bergies of Cape Town

1998
Snake
N/A

When a luminous stranger arrives on the farm, Stella’s father stays sober and her mother begins to laugh again. But the man with the silver cross has not come to save them. as jerry slithers his way into their hearts, his own dark wounds begin to show. stella must shut up and watch him strangle her family or use the truth to fight for their lives.

Snake

2024
Atlantis
N/A

Ra'ida is a regular taxi between Atlantis and Cape Town. When her younger brother Marid disappears after a failed drug robbery and Marid's body is discovered by Ray, she decides to find out what happened to her and seeks revenge.

Atlantis

2021