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‘Real Estate Sisters’ Producers on the Struggle to Find Black Crew in South Africa and What They Did to Tackle the Problem


Producing Black female-fronted comedy in South Africa is no joke but Reabetswe Moeti-Vogt and Zoe Ramushu are determined to bring about change.

“Real Estate Sisters” might be a laugh-a-minute on screen but is part of a much longer, broader and tenacious fight behind the scenes to transform an industry that is still resistant to opening up and making space for more varied voices. There are very important films, touching on very tough issues, but that’s not what most people are immediately going to pick to watch on Netflix or Amazon or Showmax. Ramushu just created Wrapped as an app to help productions staff up with diversity “because of that exact pain point we experienced when we were crewing up.

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