'After the Wax', 1991.       16mm Colour      17mins 20secs

Written, Directed & Produced by Chaz Maviyane-Davies                                                            Director of Photography: Tony ShearnEditor: James Carew                                                           Music: Juwon OgungbePrincipal Actors: Nick Monu & Graig Lungu

Synopsis:

A poem of a dead man - using nationality to look back on the point of his life and human existence.  His plight is our plight.

Festivals & Awards

Southern African Film Festival, Harare. 1993  (2 Awards: Best Director & Best Short Film)

Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany. 1993

1st ANIWA African Student Film Festival, Accra, Ghana. 1993 (Awarded the ANIWA Trophy)

Tampere Film Festival, Finland. 1994

Norwegian Short Film Festival, Oslo, Norway. 1994

2nd prize for The Security Guard in the National Short Film Scriptwriting Competition, Zimbabwe 1993.

Shown on TV:

WDR Germany, Arte France & Channel 4 UK.

I am currently working on a script for a feature film.

Comments:

Director of the first genuine Zimbabwean film..... MAINICHI (Japan)

In other hands this statement would be so much shrill rhetoric, but in Maviyane-Davies invests his images with a  convincing dignity..... HORIZON (Zimbabwe)

The film is a condensation of Chaz's creativity, personality and produced in the climate of Africa's  turbulent  history with the ancestoral thoughts that stream through his veins.... EARTH CRISIS (Japan)