Advik Beni is a South African filmmaker and curator based in Los Angeles, California. They received a Bachelors at the University of Cape Town and then graduated from California Institute of the Arts with an MFA in Film Directing.

Through a practice steeped in South African traditions of orality, their work aims to create imagined spaces for marginalised people to express grief and trauma. They are interested in how these non-hierarchical, hybrid models of filmmaking can encourage a collective mutability amongst rhizomatic pathways—that may lead to an actuality of positive impact on communities; whilst preserving a cultural tradition eclipsed by Western modes of storytelling. Advik is focused on how we can witness each other’s existence, and all that entails, in an attempt to facilitate a tangibility of cross-border solidarity that prioritises care. Their work has been supported by San Sebastián International Film Festival, Sundance, FIDMarseille, Prismatic Ground, New Orleans Film Festival, Flaherty Film Seminar, Points North Institute, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival amongst others.

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