Creatives discuss systemic racism

Why does the Muslim woman whose character owns a restaurant on a series have to wear a doekie? Why doesn’t a black actor have a make up and hair artist who doesn’t knows how to do African hair? Why doesn’t a local film produced by a Muslim women get recognised in her home country?
These were some of the rhetorical questions highlighted by a panel of creatives in the film and production industry at a discussion at Artscape on last Friday September 27.