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    'Free But Not Free': Zimbabwe's Amateur Filmmakers Turn A Lens On Their Country

    For a contest after the ouster of Robert Mugabe, filmmakers responded to the question "What does it mean to be Zimbabwean?" Their short films featured some uncomfortable answers.
    by Connor Donevan Jul 14, 2018 3 minutes
    Nigel Ndlovu, a filmmaker and independent candidate for Zimbabwe's parliament in this month's elections, was a judge for the competition. "Being Zimbabwean right now, it means freedom, it means speaking out against injustices," he says.

    For decades, people living in Zimbabwe have been taught that speaking their minds comes at a cost. Under former president Robert Mugabe, an authoritarian ruler who held power for more than 37 years, openly challenging the government meant risking arrest, beating or worse. There's still a law on the books that makes insulting the president a crime.

    Things have been different since last November, when Mugabe's former deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, took power with the backing of the

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