Thabiso Maretlwaneng is a Botswanan television and film producer.
[Charmaine Revaka]
Media – Thabiso Maretlwaneng
20 September 2016. He received an
African Achievers Award in 2015.
[Maretlwaneng wins Africa Achievers Award]
''Weekend Post'', 5 August 2015.[
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Life
Thabiso Maretlwaneng was a karate champion, and gained a sports scholarship to study at Swinburne University of Technology
The Swinburne University of Technology (or simply Swinburne) is a public university, public research university in Melbourne, Australia. It is the modern descendant of the Eastern Suburbs Technical College established in 1908, renamed Swinburne ...
in Australia
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. As a student, he produced a feature-length documentary, ''Head Up'', following the journey of young black refugees in Australia trying to break into the country's hip hop
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industry. The soundtrack for ''Head Up'' won an award at the 2009 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
Maretlwaneng's Botswana company Dee-Zone Productions received youth funding from the Botswana Government.[ It produced ''Ntwagolo'', a 52-episode interactive docudrama looking at the impact of ]AIDS
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in Botswana. ''Pelokgale'', a series which started airing in 2014, examined gender-based violence. An entertainment show, ''Pula Power'', also started airing in 2014. In 2016 Dee-Zone Productions was sued over unpaid rentals.[Mpho Mokwape]
Maretlwaneng's film company sued
''Mmegi Online'', 31 May 2016.
Filmography
Films
* ''Head Up''. Documentary.
Television series
* ''Ntwagolo''. 52-episode drama.
* ''Pelokgale'', 2014. 26-episode drama.
References
Living people
21st-century Botswana businesspeople
Botswana television producers
Botswana film directors
Year of birth missing (living people)
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