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Akiedah Mohamed
Category: Visuals
Film-making
Country: South Africa
About
Akiedah Mohamed is a documentary filmmaker and playwright from Cape Town, South Africa. She has used documentary filmmaking to explore sensitive issues in both her religious community and in South African society as a whole.
In 1999 she made her first film, The Malawian Kiss, a documentary about the life of Muslim HIV/AIDS activist, Faghmeda Miller. It won the Special Jury Merit Award at the Sithengi International Film Market in November of that year. Her next film was The Second Wife, a documentary following the lives of a Cape Town couple in a polygamous marriage. Tales of the Tukamanies followed in 2001, documenting the stories of Muslim women tasked with the ritual preparation of the dead. Her fourth film, appearing in 2003, was called Portraits of Ramadan. It discusses the holy month of Ramadan and its significance for Muslims in Cape Town. In 2004 she made Freedom is a Personal Journey, a documentary dealing with South Africa’s prison system. More recently, she wrote a Gerty’s Brother, a screenplay adaption of a short story by South African writer Ahmed Essop that centers on a taboo romance that crosses color lines.
In addition to her documentary work, she has directed several episode of Nomzamo, a sitcom that explores how societal issues affect different generations of one South African family.
