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Roger Young II is a South Africa-based filmmaker and writer.[1][2] His short film Keys, Money, Phone won Best South African Short Film at the 2014 Durban International Film Festival,[3] and he co-created the "I benefited from apartheid" T-shirt project with Leonard Shapiro, which was covered by The Guardian and the Mail & Guardian.[1][4]
Career
[edit]Film
[edit]Young wrote and directed the short film Keys, Money, Phone (2014), produced by Shanna Freedman for Muti Films.[5] The film won Best South African Short Film at the 35th Durban International Film Festival.[3] Africa Is a Country analysed it as an exploration of whiteness and white privilege in Cape Town,[6] and City Press reviewed it as a sociopolitical critique dealing with white male aggression and entitlement.[5]
His feature project Love Runs Out was described by the Mail & Guardian as "meta-cinema" about three young Capetonians and competing definitions of love.[2] Between 10and5 covered the production behind the scenes,[7] and the film was listed in the Durban International Film Festival's 2019 feature-film competition.[8]
Young also directed the 2015 short film Boat Girls, co-written with Amy Wilson and Michelle Duplessis and produced by Freedman;[9] Durban Is Yours described the film as dealing with white privilege and sexual violence toward women.[10]
Writing and journalism
[edit]Young's journalism has appeared in Vice, the Mail & Guardian, City Press and Rolling Stone.[11] He was a member of the team behind the South African underground culture magazine Mahala.[12] His City Press articles have been cited in academic journals, including work on South African humour, slavery-memory museums, and gendered violence in higher education.[13][14][15]
Public projects
[edit]Young and artist Leonard Shapiro created and sold T-shirts printed with the words "I benefited from apartheid".[4][1] The project began with ten shirts at a Michaelis School of Fine Art exhibition under a sign reading "Free T-shirts, whites only", and it polarised online commentary about apartheid privilege and race in South Africa.[1] The Mail & Guardian described Young as a filmmaker, photographer and journalist in its coverage of the project.[4]
Selected filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Keys, Money, Phone | Director; writer | Best South African Short Film, Durban International Film Festival[3] |
| 2015 | Boat Girls | Director; co-writer | Short film[9] |
| 2019 | Love Runs Out | Director | Listed in DIFF 2019 feature-film competition[8] |
Selected writing
[edit]| Year | Title | Publication | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | "Is Leon Schuster blackface?" | City Press | Cited in South African Theatre Journal[16][13] |
| 2014 | "You are walking on graves" | City Press | Cited in South African Historical Journal[17][14] |
| 2014 | "Meet DOOKOOM, the South African Hip-Hop Crew White Afrikaans Civil Rights Groups Want Banned" | VICE | Music and culture feature[18] |
| 2016 | "How UCT's system failed student after sexual harassment case" | City Press | Cited in South African Journal on Human Rights[19][15] |
| 2018 | "War on drugs rocks Hillbrow" | City Press | Co-written with Simon Doda[20] |
Awards and recognition
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Smith, David (16 November 2012). "'I benefited from apartheid' T-shirt sparks South African race row". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Young and his restless endeavour". Mail & Guardian. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Durban International Film Festival Award Winners". University of KwaZulu-Natal. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Get apartheid on your chest". Mail & Guardian. 16 November 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Short Film Review – Keys, Money, Phone: Anatomy of a dick". City Press. 12 August 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2026 – via News24.
- ↑ Musiitwa, Elliot Ross (30 January 2015). "Roger Young's 'Keys, Money, Phone' explores the heart of young whiteness in Cape Town". Africa Is a Country. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- ↑ Pinto, Gabriella (29 March 2016). "Forever Young: Behind the scenes of 'Love Runs Out'". Between 10 and 5. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- 1 2 Hennig, Wanda (10 July 2019). "Knuckle down as the Durban International Film Festival DIFF 2019 turns 40". Wandalust. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Boat Girls". ShortFilmWire. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- ↑ Perfect, Bob (2 December 2015). "Boat Girls". Durban Is Yours. Archived from the original on 4 January 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- ↑ "Roger Young". Bhekisisa. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- ↑ Manson, Herman (July 2011). "Andy Davis digs up the underground with Mahala". MarkLives. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- 1 2 Crigler, Robin K. (25 April 2018). "No Laughing Matter? Humour and the performance of South Africa". South African Theatre Journal. 31 (2–3): 155–171. doi:10.1080/10137548.2018.1451360.
- 1 2 North, Samuel (21 March 2017). "Museums as Tools for Understanding Slavery and its Legacies in South Africa". South African Historical Journal. 69 (1): 82–100. doi:10.1080/02582473.2017.1297480.
- 1 2 Vetten, Lisa (25 February 2025). "Placing protest, protesting place: Gendered forms of violence in institutions of higher education in South Africa". South African Journal on Human Rights. 40 (1–2): 10–32. doi:10.1080/02587203.2025.2464053.
- ↑ Young, Roger (27 April 2014). "Is Leon Schuster blackface?". City Press. Retrieved 30 September 2026 – via News24.
- ↑ Young, Roger (24 September 2014). "You are walking on graves". City Press. Retrieved 30 September 2026 – via News24.
- ↑ Young, Roger (15 October 2014). "Meet DOOKOOM, the South African Hip-Hop Crew White Afrikaans Civil Rights Groups Want Banned". VICE. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- ↑ Young, Roger (3 January 2016). "How UCT's system failed student after sexual harassment case". City Press. Retrieved 30 September 2026 – via News24.
- ↑ Young, Roger; Doda, Simon (30 October 2018). "War on drugs rocks Hillbrow". City Press. Retrieved 30 September 2026 – via News24.
- ↑ "BASA/National Arts Festival Arts Journalism Award winners". National Arts Festival. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
External links
[edit]- Roger Young at Bhekisisa