Sifiso Khanyile

Sifiso Khanyile is a Johannesburg based multi award winning filmmaker, archive researcher and festival director at Resonance Archive Festival. He’s also a member of the International Emmys. Through Anaphora Films, Khanyile has produced over 10 films, writing and directing 5 of those including 4 award winning documentaries Uprize, A New Country, and The Reclaimers. With 18 years’ experience in film, television and news production. His work is concerned with memory and history and how they continue to shape contemporary imaginations of South Africa. His recently completed short-film adaptation of Njabulo Ndebele’s The Prophetess expands his vocabulary into the South African literary archive, having worked with audio and video archives in the past. His ongoing project, Black Joy Under Apartheid, foregrounds black leisure and pleasure under apartheid to offer counter-hegemonic narratives to black victimhood. Khanyile has also made music videos for Impande Core, Tumi (Stogie T) as well as Thabang Tabane. As an archive producer, Khanyile has worked on numerous projects and has presented at archive symposiums such as the Visionary Archives Festival at the Arsenal in Berlin (2015). He is currently writing his debut narrative feature Problematik, which was developed as part of Venice Biennale Cinema College 2021 -2022, and Venice Gap Financing Market. In 2024, Sifiso released The Clarion Call a biographical documentary on the Economic Freedom Fighters, he was also South African producers on 2 international documentary projects; Who is Still Alive by Akka Films, a Swiss/Palestinian film shot entirely in studio in Johannesburg and Free Nelson Mandela a Channel 4 documentary series produced by Rogan Productions (UK).