Working Title: 34° SOUTH Director Johann Abrahams Producer Rudolf Rieger Genre Historical Feature Documentary 90 Minutes Tag Line Ancient Rituals, Enchanting Culture and Heritage Log Line Portraying history and today’s life of the Khoekhoe, First Nation People, of Southern Africa reflecting Khoe structures and tribes, art, culture and heritage and their search for identity. Synopsis While travelling to the various destinations of the homes of Khoe and San descendants, chiefs, royalties, head-men and –women to capture ancient rituals, folklore, arts and heritage places, listening to half forgotten stories and tracing their social structures in remote places of Southern Africa. Modern interpretation of historical records, rock paintings, and excavations by historians and anthropologists, will reveal a new narrative - a story of survival of a people that faced an onslaught from early European visitors and later the Dutch and British settlers, military subjugation, dispossession of land and a threat to its culture, stretching over thousands of years, still continuing until today. It is a story of survival of one of the oldest cultures in the world, who faced an unexpected threat to its way of life in 1652 when the Dutch East India Company set up a refreshment station at the Cape. For the first time we hear the story of the Khoekhoe herders from the perspective of direct descendants. It’s a film that will appeal to scholars and anyone interested in First Nation People’s history, and cultural heritage. Director Johann Abrahams is a direct descendant of the Cape Khoekhoe, the Hessequa. Managing to trace his ancestors back to the first people that were baptized by a German missionary in 1737. Producer Rudolf Rieger spent more than ten years on visiting historical places, collecting related information, participates in Khoekhoe, Bushmen and other traditional events, chief and royalty gatherings. Print Top