Third Party Event - Life is Wonderful: Mandela's Unsung Heroes

The film tells the story of Nelson Mandela's co-defendants at the Rivonia trial, the lawyers who saved them from the gallows and some of the other brave men and women who supported them in their fight for a multi-racial democracy. It is told largely through never before seen interviews with the surviving defendants and lawyers, recordings from the trial and original archive from the apartheid era and the trial. 

The film has had a fantastic audience and media response in 12 screenings in five cities in South Africa. It had its world premiere last month at the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival where it won the prestigious audience award for Best International Film. 

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"Through ground-breaking and never–before-seen interviews, the former English High Court Judge Sir Nicholas Stadlen throws light onto the extraordinary people involved in the Rivonia Trial – the court case that changed South Africa. Their stories and the stories of the anti-apartheid struggle show the power of people’s ideals to enable them to create the world as it should be, not accepting the world as it is."  Screen Africa