{"id":12098,"date":"2021-06-30T13:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=12098"},"modified":"2022-06-14T01:38:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T23:38:24","slug":"blind-ambition-wins-at-the-tribeca-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2021\/06\/30\/blind-ambition-wins-at-the-tribeca-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Ambition Wins At The Tribeca Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blind Ambition<\/a> just won Best Documentary at the Tribeca International Film Festival. We have Joseph available for interviews should you like to interview him on his role in the movie and what this means for the movie ahead of its release in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South African hospitality circles are buzzing following the official release of Blind Ambition, a documentary by filmmakers Rob Coe and Warwick Ross (of Red Obsession fame), featuring four of South Africa\u2019s top sommeliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blind Ambition was officially screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, the largest American film festival held in person since the beginning of the pandemic. The festival announced the documentary as follows: \u201cJoseph (Dhafana), Tinashe (Nyamoduka), Marlvin (Gwese) and Pardon (Taguzu) are part of a wave of Zimbabweans who left their economically-hit homeland for a better life elsewhere. After their perilous journeys they arrive in South Africa, eventually get jobs in restaurants, gain interest in the intricacies of wine, become sommeliers, meet and bond with one another, and are encouraged to form the first-ever Zimbabwe team to compete in The World Wine Blind Tasting Championships\u2014the Olympics of the wine world\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What follows is an exciting, but intense, training progamme, reflections of their life journeys, and the ultimate highlight \u2013 competing against the best wine tasting palates in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph, who captained Team Zimbabwe in 2017 and 2018 said: \u201cAs I mention in the film, this journey has really been tattooed in my heart, and it is something no-one can take away. To be honest, to see parts of my life told in a film was very moving, and to relive those amazing moments in France, as well as the whole journey, is incredible. Ross and the team [producers] really did an amazing job at giving an honest reflection of our story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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