Don Edkins is a documentary film director
and producer. He was born in Cape Town
and left South Africa in 1976 for political
reasons. In 1994, he returned to vote in the
first democratic elections. With a background
in development studies and African
languages, he has extensive experience in
the field of media and development.
In Lesotho, he published a national popular
educational magazine and founded a
mobile video cinema screening films at
a community level. He has directed and
produced a number of documentaries,
including the multi-awarded Steps for the
Future, a collection of 38 films from Southern
Africa about life in the time of HIV/AIDS.
Steps for the Future, the first project of the
STEPS group of commissioning editors and
producers, has been broadcast around the
world and screened at 150 festivals.
