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As part of Orientation Week, Head of School, Zenobia Simelane, took Media City Academy’s inaugural cohort on an excursion to the Human Rights Film Festival, introducing students to documentary storytelling within a real-world context at the very start of their academic journey. The inclusion of the festival reflects a considered approach to how students are introduced to their craft. It situates storytelling within a broader social and cultural context from the outset, encouraging engagement with work grounded in lived experience.

In the early stages of any institution’s growth, the partnerships it chooses to build begin to define its trajectory. They do more than extend reach. They signal intent, establish credibility and shape the kinds of opportunities that become available to the community that gathers around it.