Robyn Slovo
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Robyn Jean Slovo (born 1954) is a film producer, most famous her work on the 2006 film Catch a Fire.
Slovo started her career in theatre[1], before moving into the television and film industry, working first as a script editor and development executive for the BBC, and then as a film producer for Working Title Films and Company Pictures, where she is currently Head of Film.
Slovo is currently producing the forthcoming adaptation of Mirian Toews' novel A Complicated Kindness, for Company Pictures and Film4. The film is to be directed by Sarah Gavron. [2]
Slovo is the daughter of the late Joe Slovo and Ruth First, leaders of the South African Communist Party and later activists in the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Her family fled South Africa in 1964, settling in Camden, London as political refugees, where her family continued as anti-apartheid activists-in-exile. She visited South Africa in 1992, during the decline of aparteid, but remained a UK resident. She is the youngest sister of novelist Gillian Slovo and screenwriter Shawn Slovo.
