{"id":47813,"date":"2025-10-24T01:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=47813"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:08:55","slug":"doc-on-zapiro-screens-nov-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/doc-on-zapiro-screens-nov-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc on Zapiro screens Nov. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Film Festival, which takes place Nov. 6-17, is primarily a streaming festival, but there are a few in-person cinematic experiences, including a screening of <i>The Showerhead<\/i> on Nov. 6, 6:30 p.m., at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oct-24-film.24.Showerhead-Poster-Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-47814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oct-24-film.24.Showerhead-Poster-Web.jpg\" alt=\"image - The Showerhead film poster\" width=\"280\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oct-24-film.24.Showerhead-Poster-Web.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oct-24-film.24.Showerhead-Poster-Web-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>The Showerhead<\/i> is a feature-length documentary that examines the work of political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, aka Zapiro, tracing his journey from anti-apartheid activist and struggle artist to \u201cconscience of the nation\u201d and champion of freedom of expression in democratic South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary delves into the origins, relevance and impact of an iconic feature in Zapiro\u2019s work that gives the film its title: the plumbing hardware fixed to the head of Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa. Through Zapiro\u2019s cartoons, the film explores Zuma\u2019s scandal-ridden rise to power, his turbulent presidency and eventual downfall.<\/p>\n<p>Zapiro\u2019s cartoons also capture a range of critical issues that have plagued South Africa in the post-Mandela era: failures of leadership during the AIDS pandemic, corruption, chauvinism, cronyism, self-enrichment, subversion of the constitution and the rule of law, and escalating threats to freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets to <i>The Showerhead<\/i>, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/southafricanfilmfest.com\/program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">southafricanfilmfest.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i>\u2013 Courtesy South African Film Festival<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Film Festival, which takes place Nov. 6-17, is primarily a streaming festival, but there are a few in-person cinematic experiences, including a screening of The Showerhead on Nov. 6, 6:30 p.m., at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. The Showerhead is a feature-length documentary that examines the work of political cartoonist Jonathan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[787],"tags":[4682,6967,4242,3597,1576,22651,24414],"class_list":["post-47813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-film","tag-cartoons","tag-documentaries","tag-history","tag-politics","tag-south-africa","tag-south-african-film-festival","tag-the-showerhead"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}