EXCLUSIVE: Summerside Media has acquired world sales rights for South African director Zamo Mkhwanazi ’s apartheid era drama Laundry and is launching the title at the AFM.

The film, which world premiered to acclaim in the Discovery section at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September, draws on the experiences of Mkhwanazi’s family under the racist system of segregation imposed by South Africa ’s government all-white from 1948 to 1994.

Set in 1968, it stars Ntobeko Sishi as teenager Khuthala who is dismissive of his family’s laundry business, dreaming instead of making his living through music.

But as the apartheid government cracks down on Black business ownership, he finds himself torn between chasing his dreams and fighting the injustice that threatens t

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