The Last Picture

Film

by Farai Sevenzo

Details

Zimbabwe / 1997 / 26mins / Drama / English

A young photographer falls in love with the beautiful, young wife of an older man whose picture he has taken. When the man finds out about the photographer’s feelings for his wife, he asks the photographer to return to his house to take one last picture of them.

About the Director

Farai Sevenzo

Farai Sevenzo was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1964. After attending a drama course at the University of Zimbabwe, he went on to earn a degree in Film Studies at Stirling University, graduating in 1988. Returning home, Farai worked as a journalist, a film reviewer, and writer of training videos and of social issue videos for community education. He was also assistant director on Jit, in which he also acted. After completing the feature script Precious, he won a British Council scholarship to attend the NFTS directing course for a year. Rwendo is the fruit of that training. Farai then worked on a screen adaptation of his own short story, Murima / In the Dark, about post-independence Zimbabwe. Learn More