AWARD-WINNING FILM DIRECTOR

Lethabo Mokgatle is a social justice activist and filmmaker from South Africa. Lethabo is a former graduate student from the New York Film Academy, completing her degree with a Cum Laude in filmmaking in 2021. Lethabo has been featured in South Africa's biggest Morning News Show called the Morning Live where she talked about her career as a filmmaker and gave an insight into her recent thesis film that touches on a sensitive topic of Female Circumcision also known as FGM.

 

Lethabo has had the privilege of screening her film at the acclaimed Oprah Winfrey- Sponsored and Sonny Micheaux Film Festival, winning second place for Best Student Film at the Loeries Awards Africa and Middle East and winning Best Women’s Rights Film at the International Social Change Film fest where she gave her first Live Talkback in Chicago.

 

Lethabo aims to help spread awareness with her film to help stop the FGM. Not only is Lethabo a filmmaker but she is also a plus-size model where she landed her first commercial feature back in 2018 with Jet Donatella. The brand started a social media campaign to spread body positivity to women of all shapes and sizes and Lethabo continues to involve herself with body positivity campaigns such as the Plus-size community where they support black-owned businesses brands while spreading body positivity through their campaign.