The #docLOVE team hosted the screening of SISTERS OF THE WILDERNESS at the Bioscope Independent Cinema in Johannesburg and the Bertha House in Cape Town with a wonderful Q&A with director / cinematographer Karin Slater in Cape Town. The film was also showcased at the Isivivana Centre Cinema in Khayelitsha, the Amazwi South African Literature Museum in Makhanda and the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban.

Set in the iMfolozi wilderness, South Africa, in the oldest game park in Africa, Sisters of the Wilderness tells the story of five young Zulu women going into the wilderness for the first time in their lives on a journey of selfdiscovery, which offers them an opportunity to grow and heal, and serves as a reminder that we are intimately linked to nature and what we do to her we do to ourselves. The film also explores the plight of the primordial iMfolozi wilderness which is severely threatened by open-cast coal mining on its border, and the dire rhino poaching, in this park, which is now the epicentre of South Africa’s rhino poaching activity, with the highest rates of poaching in more than a century.