More than two decades later the South African direc tor Gavin Hood, whose first film The Storekeeper won the Grand Prize at the 1998 Melbourne International Film Festival, began work on the screenplay of Tsotsi, and shot the movie in South Africa in 2004 and 2005. It won the Michael Powell Award and the Standard Life Audience Award at the 2005 Edinburgh Film Festival, the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival, and the Audience Award at the Los Angeles AFI Film Festival. In 2006, Tsotsi won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

‘Astounding’
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