Robyn Slovo

Robyn Jean Slovo (born 1954) is a film producer, most famous her work on the 2006 film "Catch a Fire".

Slovo started her career in theatre, [ [http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/lbw/009110.shtml Dead Proud from Second Wave Young Women Playwrights - EDITED BY ANN CONSIDINE & ROBYN SLOVO ] ] before moving into the television and film industry, working first as a script editor and development executive for the BBC, and then as a film producer for Working Title Films and Company Pictures, where she is currently Head of Film.

Slovo is currently producing the forthcoming adaptation of Mirian Toews' novel A Complicated Kindness, for Company Pictures and Film4. The film is to be directed by Sarah Gavron. [ [http://www.creativematch.co.uk/viewnews/?90688 creativematch: Lottery Cash Injection For Film Scripts ] ]

Slovo is the daughter of the late Joe Slovo and Ruth First, leaders of the South African Communist Party and later activists in the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Her family fled South Africa in 1964, settling in Camden, London as political refugees, where her family continued as anti-apartheid activists-in-exile. She visited South Africa in 1992, during the decline of aparteid, but remained a UK resident. She is the youngest sister of novelist Gillian Slovo and screenwriter Shawn Slovo.

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* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0806255 IMDB Page]
* [http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/featurePhoto.php?featureID=68 Biography at Working Title Films]
* [http://www.companypictures.co.uk/content.aspx?code=theteam Biography at Company Pictures]