Helena Nogueira
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Born
Mozambique
CitizenshipSouth African
OccupationFilm director
Helena Nogueira | |
|---|---|
 Noguerra signing books at the 2017 Paris Book Fair | |
| Born | Mozambique |
| Citizenship | South African |
| Alma mater | University of Natal Institut des hautes études cinématographiques |
| Occupation | Film director |
Helena Nogueira is a South African film director,[1] "the first woman to direct a feature film in South Africa".[2]
Helena Nogueira was born in Mozambique.[2] She studied at the University of Natal and then the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris.[1]
Nogueira's first film was a documentary about Athol Fugard,[1] and she has subsequently directed a documentary on Ingrid Jonker. Her 1988 feature film Quest for Truth, Quest for Love was based on Gertrude Stein's first novel, Q.E.D..[3] It featured lesbian attraction between an activist and an ecologist, played by Jana Cilliers and Sandra Prinsloo, against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa.[4]