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#Sandulela Asanda

It’s Not Not-Acceptance


an interview with Sandulela Asanda

Sandulela Asanda went to an all-girls boarding school, and has now made a feature about going to an all-girls boarding school. Black Burns Fast is out in cinemas countrywide as of last Friday, after a massive festival run that included DIFF last year. Following our review, we tried to figure out how she got from Mirror Mirror, her DIFF-winning short film, to screening her first feature in so many cinemas and doing so many goddamn interviews.

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Reactionary Reviews | Black Burns Fast | dir: Sandulela Asanda | 95mins

Black Burns Fast gets right into it upfront, announcing and dispensing with setup and exposition in teen rapid-fire dialogue, overcompensating, overstating, and shrugging all at the same time. Self-consciously un-self-conscious. It would be easy to be mean about the overacting teens, but you know what? Teens overact irl.

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