Name: Film screening: Black Mambas
Start: 2025-03-23T16:45:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-23T19:45:00+00:00
Location: Trinity Rooms Community Hub

For the third consecutive year, the Red Hearth team is taking part in the Stroud Film Festival, together with the Trinity Rooms Community Hub. Our previous screenings of Smoke Sauna Sisterhood' and 'Sacred Water' have been very well attended. For this year, we chose the documentary 'Black Mambas' continuing to honour the strength in womens' stories and to deconstruct stereotypes.
About the film: The Black Mambas were formed in 2013, at the peak of the Kruger National Park’s rhino poaching crisis, to protect the park and conserve its wildlife. Germany-based documentarian Lena Karbe films South Africa’s first all-female anti-poaching unit and the sexism, danger and enduring colonial structures they confront. For more, visit: https://karbefilm.de/portfolio-item/black-mambas/
The screening will start at 5pm, and the documentary will be followed by a live Q&A with film director Lena Karbe.
The Red Hearth organises a yearly summer gathering for women, fostering sisterhood, wellbeing, creativity and mutual care. This film screening is intended both as a fundraiser for our gathering, and an opportunity to bring our community together in late winter, to raise awareness of important women-related themes.