Paul Knight

Justin Chadwick’s Kenya-set The First Grader, the story of an 80-year-old Kenyan man struggling to get the education he was previously denied, won the audience award at the 32nd Durban International Film Festival. 

The Durban International Film Festival is organised by the Centre For Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal) with support by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, National Film and Video Foundation, KwaZulu-Natal Department of Economic Development and Tourism, HIVOS, City of Durban, German Embassy of South Africa, Goethe Institute of South Africa, Industrial Development Corporation and the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Arts and Culture.