Overview
- The film bowed in Park City at the Sundance Film Festival and is currently on the market for distribution.
- Fuqua builds the narration from early-1990s recordings captured by ghostwriter Richard Stengel during work on Mandela’s autobiography.
- Archival footage is interwoven with Thabang Lehobye’s protest-art-inspired animation to visualize events without contemporaneous video.
- Anti-apartheid veteran Mac Maharaj appears in new interviews, recalls smuggling memoir pages from prison in 1967, and calls the tapes crucial firsthand testimony.
- Reviews highlight unflinching depictions of apartheid’s violence and frame the documentary as a timely reflection on resistance and the making of a leader.