Chantel Clark is a South African director and screenwriter. Chantel’s script for her directorial feature debut “Wit Gesigte (Pale Faces)”, was selected for the Sundance Institute’s January 2019Screenwriters Lab, IFP’s 41st IFP Week Project Forum, and was a SFFILM Spring2019 Rainin Grant Finalist. Asa Graduate of the Film MFA Program at Columbia University, her thesis film “Our Albertinia” was awarded a 2018 National Board of Review Student Grant and screened at over 25 international film festivals. Chantel has received her Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Production and in Television Drama from the University of Cape Town. She is currently an ambassador for Girls in Film South Africa.

‍She meets up with Oumar for an intimate conversation covering her passion for writing stories.