Audiences were captivated by the visceral, intimate look into the lives of street kids in Durban, South Africa, captured by filmmaker Billy Raftery in his documentary “Angels in Exile,” which premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival last week (review here). However, one couldn’t help but also be drawn in to Billy’s story and the circumstances surrounding this film that was ten years in the making. We sat down with Raftery and his producer Adam Paul Smith to chat about the making of “Angels in Exile,” how he was able to gain access into this population of rogue street kids, and what the future holds for social activism documentary filmmaking. Eventually narrated by Charlize Theron, Raftery wasn’t looking for a documentary subject when he went to South Africa for a surf trip in 2003. The subject found him and he was immediately taken in by the story.
- 2/9/2013
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
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