Jahmil qubeka biography

Xolani Thandikaya Qubeka (born 26 March 1979), professionally known as Jahmil X.T Qubeka, is a South African film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Xolani Thandikaya Qubeka, professionally known as Jahmil X.T Qubeka, is a South African film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Award-Winning Filmmaker and screenwriter Jahmil XT Qubeka's career has spanned over 15 years covering an entire spectrum of filmmaking disciplines.

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Jahmil X.T. Qubeka is the afro- futurist filmmaker

Jahmil X.T. Qubeka’s unwavering search for African identity distinguishes him from any other filmmaker. He specifically created Blood Psalms, a Showmax Original in collaboration with CANAL+, as a reimagining of ourselves as Africans, answering the question, who are we?

Blood Psalms is billed as the biggest and most ambitious African series yet, written, produced and directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka and Layla Swart-Najaar from Yellowbone Entertainment. The 10-episode series debuted on Showmax in September 2022 with 11 weeks of new episodes.

(Swart-Najaar and Qubeka were responsible for South Africa’s 2020 Oscar entry, Knuckle City, a boxing drama that won six awards at the South African Film and Television Awards, including Best Director for Qubeka and Best Editor for Swart-Najaar...)

GQ chats with Qhubeka to discuss the birth of this masterpiece and his contribution to African cinema and the local television industry.

GQ: Who is Jahmil?

Jahmil X.T. Qubeka: I’m a storyteller. Through the use of moving imagery. I pa

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September 2017 Award-Winning Filmmaker and screenwriter Jahmil X.T. Qubeka's career has spanned over 15 years covering an entire spectrum of filmmaking disciplines. Most notably, his documentary and feature film work has enjoyed screenings at various prestigious international film festivals including Toronto International Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival (Korea), Dubai Film Festival amongst others. In 2005 an AIDS documentary he directed for Sesame Street won the prestigious Peabody Award in America for best actuality programming.

Among many successes in his career, Jahmil was the 2014 South African Standard bank Young Artist of the year in the Film category. His second feature film Of Good Report (2013) has the inauspicious reputation of being the first feature film to be effectively banned in Post-Apartheid South Africa.

The film went on to garner many international plaudits and awards. It had it's World premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival in 2013. It is also the

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Jahmil X.T. Qubeka

South African film director (born 1979)

Xolani Thandikaya Qubeka (born 26 March 1979),^[1] professionally known as Jahmil X.T Qubeka, is a South African filmdirector, screenwriter, and producer.^[2]

Jahmil X.T Qubeka
Qubeka at the 2019 African Films Festival
Born	Xolani Thandikaya Qubeka (1979-03-26) 26 March 1979 (age 45) Mdantsane, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter, producer
Years active	2000–present

He has mostly worked on action, crime, and drama films that tell the story of post-apartheid South Africa, and has received multiple accolades, including Best Director at the 15th edition of the Africa Movie Academy Awards for Sew the Winter to My Skin.^[3]

Personal life

Qubeka was born in a Xhosa family in what used to be the nominally independent state of Ciskei. Although he was born during the apartheid era, he grew up in a relatively elite Black neighborhood, and stated that he "doesn’t have the weight of apartheid on his shoulders.