Number 37

This thriller has a premise taken right out of Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window: A man in a wheel chair is witness to a person being killed in his own back yard, whereupon he embraces the role of voyeur and manipulator. Unlike Hitchcock's elegant original, Number 37 strives for rawness, grit, and authenticity. Randal, a crippled small-time crook bound to a wheelchair, is in debt to a brutal gangster, and tries to blackmail a group of tough criminals in order to pay what he owes. His scheme works up until a certain point, but the stakes become higher as Randal and his girlfriend lose control over their little game. CFO

Nosipho Dumisa (b. 1989) is a director, screenwriter and producer, and one of very few black female filmmakers to have made a break-through with a fiction film. She studied at the film school ADFA in Cape Town, and has previously directed short films, music videos, and TV series. Number 37 is her first feature and premiered at the SXSW festival in Austin this spring.