Roy Blumenthal
South African film director
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Roy Blumenthal (born in 1968 in Johannesburg, South Africa) has been an active poet since the early 1990s.
- Poet
- screenwriter
- novelist
- filmmaker
- visual artist
Roy Blumenthal | |
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| Born | 1968 (age 57–58) Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Citizenship | South African |
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| Years active | 1994 – present |
He is the founder of Barefoot Press, which started out printing free pamphlets. Five editions were published, with a print run of 20 000 each.
Career
Roy Blumenthal co-edited with Graeme Friedman, A Writer in Stone, the tribute to South African writer, Lionel Abrahams.
Blumenthal is also a screenwriter, novelist, filmmaker, and visual artist.[1]
A one-time contributor to MoneywebLIFE,[2] Blumenthal is a social commentator and cultural agent who employs a combination of visual, text, and convergent mediums to make sharp and exacting comments about the South African socio-economic milieu.
Blumenthal makes his living as a visual facilitator (aka, sketchnoter, or graphic harvester), turning the material he hears in conferences, meetings, and workshops into pictures.
