I am personally disappointed that so little work has come out of the country in the last ten years, but then I know as well how difficult it is to raise money here to initiate and make projects. But on other levels I am disappointed as well, expecting more stories that get to grips with the reality and contradictions of life in South Africa. Instead we have glossed over or sublimated our past and its unfinished history. I find this question incredibly boring. I think the films should speak for themselves.
Representation is a key issues in South African media.
Many may not appreciate the depiction of black characters once again as criminals. I suppose the middle-classes get offended and maybe the political hierarchy gets offended, and maybe a section of the African Diaspora gets offended. There is a rift that has grown very quickly in this country between rich and poor and talking about it will cause discomfort. Talking about it in the context was much easier politically, maybe, but what I am talking about is not criminals or glamourising criminals, but township life and the forgotten poor, scarred by a violent past. Art is a search for meaning and the essence of things, surely.