Simon Bright is a filmmaker and documentary producer. Born in Rhodesia, he was optimistic about the country's future, about Robert Mugabe's plan to build a better, more equal country.
That all unravelled, and the nation building project turned into one of spite and greed, of racism stoked and fanned. Simon's unblinking lenses were not welcome in Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
He was symbolically arrested for the production of a documentary he didn't even produce, and found himself sat in a jail cell, contemplating all the things that had brought his country here, all the things this episode revealed about humanity.
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Find Simon's work here:https://zimmedia.com/
(Brilliant documentaries often fusing politics with African music)
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