{"id":3700,"date":"2017-03-23T15:49:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T13:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2017-03-23T15:49:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T13:49:45","slug":"doras-peace-official-selection-for-the-boston-and-beijing-international-film-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2017\/03\/23\/doras-peace-official-selection-for-the-boston-and-beijing-international-film-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dora&#8217;s Peace Official Selection For The Boston And Beijing International Film Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The critically-acclaimed \u2018Dora\u2019s Peace\u2019 has been selected for the Boston and Beijing International Film Festivals in April.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Konstandino Kalarytis from a screenplay by Andrew Herold, Dora\u2019s Peace is a crime drama starring Khabonina Qubeka, Hlubi Mboya, Danny Keogh and Paballo Koza.<\/p>\n<p>The film follows Dora, a Hillbrow prostitute who shields a gifted young boy from the violent clutches of organized crime after the death of his mother. In the process she discovers aspects of her own lost humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Dora\u2019s Peace was released in South Africa in 2016 and won over critics and audiences alike. The film has gone on to win Best South African Feature at last year\u2019s Jozi Film Festival and garnered a SAFTA for Hlubi Mboya as Best Supporting Actress. Dora\u2019s Peace was also nominated at the Rapid Lion Awards for Best South African Film, while Khabonina Qubeka, who put in a career-best performance as embattled sex worker Dora, earned a well-deserved Best Actress nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Dora\u2019s Peace is currently available on DVD.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DORA&#039;S PEACE Official Trailer #1 (2015) Movie HD\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y5Iy2awJFYk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DorasPeaceMovie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dora&#8217;s Peace on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The critically-acclaimed \u2018Dora\u2019s Peace\u2019 has been selected for the Boston and Beijing International Film Festivals in April. Directed by Konstandino Kalarytis from a screenplay by Andrew Herold, Dora\u2019s Peace is a crime drama starring Khabonina Qubeka, Hlubi Mboya, Danny Keogh and Paballo Koza. The film follows Dora, a Hillbrow prostitute who shields a gifted young&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2017\/03\/23\/doras-peace-official-selection-for-the-boston-and-beijing-international-film-festivals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dora&#8217;s Peace Official Selection For The Boston And Beijing International Film Festivals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festival","category-film","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}