Africa Is a Country

'Short Cut'

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

'Short Cut'

By
Sean Jacobs

The trailer for the feature film “Short Cut” (to be directed by Norman Maake) about the quest of two brothers to escape a life of hardship and political turmoil in Zimbabwe and decide to travel to Johannesburg only to be forced into slavery in an illegal mine in a border town. As Maake explains: “They plot an escape but are seperated instead. One gets deported back and the other is left stranded in no man land.. Inches away from freedom he is forced to turn back and search for his brother dead or alive bring him back to the city of promise or slums.”

The film is still in development phase.

For more information also read this essay (part of a fundraising effort) about the genesis of”Short Cuts” by the film’s producer David Max Brown.

Further Reading

From Cape To Cairo

When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?

The road to Rafah

The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.

Sinners and ancestors

Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.