Ross Devenish

Ross Devenish
Born (1939-11-15) 15 November 1939
Pietersburg (now Polokwane), South Africa
Occupation Film director
Years active 1967-2002

Ross Devenish (born 15 November 1939) is a South African film director. His 1980 film Marigolds in August was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Berlin Bear Anniversary Prize.[1] His 1977 feature film The Guest won a Bronze Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival.

Ross also directed the eight-part adaptation of Bleak House which won three BAFTAs. Now that the Buffalo's Gone won a Blue Riband Award. He was one of the two directors engaged on Goal! about the World Cup Competition being held in England in 1966. Goal! received the Robert Flaherty Award from BAFTA.

Personal

Ross Devenish studied film-making in London. He started his career with documentaries, filming behind the Royalist lines in the Civil War in the Yemen, secretly entering and filming the mercenaries trapped in the besieged town of Bukava in the Congo after a failed coup, and the next year filming in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive. He then spent the best part of a year in the United States making a film about the Native Americans, called Now that the Buffalo's Gone.

Deciding to concentrate on his interest in drama, he began working with the dramatist Athol Fugard. He directed three films with scripts by Fugard, including The Guest and Marigolds in August, in his native South Africa. The Guest won a Bronze Leopard at Locarno and Marigolds in August a Silver Bear in Berlin.

He currently lives in Cape Town.

Selected filmography

Films

Television

References

  1. ↑ "Berlinale 1980: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
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