Pascale Neuschafe

Pascale Neuschäfer is an award-winning director and cinematographer, who started her filmmaking career making documentaries about previously marginilised people living and working on the streets of Cape Town and the 1980s school uprisings South Africa.

Her work has been screened at various international festivals, including Hot Docs 2020 for her work on "The Art of Fallism", a documentary feature about the #Feesmustfall movement in South Africa. She was the cinematographer on "Coughing Up for Gold", a multi-media documentary project, directed by Rebecca Davis, about miners dying of silicosis (which won the "African Story Challenge" in 2014) and she won “Best Documentary Cinematography” at both the Canadian and the European Cinematography Awards for her work on “I am Chuma”, a hybrid animation-documentary short, about a homeless, lesbian artist living on the streets of Cape Town.

In 2012 her documentary campaign on street harassment, was selected for mentorship programmes at both 'Durban Talent Campus Doc Station', and ESODOC International documentary training in Kenya. She holds an MA in cinematography from Goldsmiths, University of London.