Kevin Harris

Kevin Harris is a South African filmmaker who has been working as an Independent in South Africa since 1979. In November 2007, he was awarded the Golden Horn Film & TV Award for Life-time Achievement in Documentary Film-making by the National Film & Video Foundation [NFVF] of South Africa. His career as an independent began back in October 1979, when he was fired from the Apartheid-controlled SABC TV for ensuring the uncensored broadcast of his documentary "BARA" which went behind the scenes of an overcrowded Baragwanath Hospital and exposed the oppressive social / environmental conditions under which the township community of Soweto were forced to live. As an independent, working from inside South Africa, from 1980 to 1994 Kevin Harris is best known as an anti-Apartheid documentary filmmaker. Since democracy in 1994, Kevin Harris has to date produced, directed & photographed over thirty-five South African feature documentaries on a variety of human-interest & social justice subjects.