Rehad Desai
Uhuru Productions (ZA)

Rehad Desai is a Producer/Director who runs his own company Uhuru Productions which produces fiction and documentary. Following his return to South Africa from exile in the UK Rehad worked as a trade union organiser, a health and safety/media officer for a chemical workers union and a Director of a HIV prevention NGO. He obtained his Masters Degree in Social History in 1997 and then entered the TV and film industry as TV current affairs journalist, soon thereafter after moving onto socio-political documentary film.