News24.com | SATURDAY PROFILE | Oscar nominated SA director René van Rooyen: ‘My mother tongue gave me competitive edge’

South African director René van Rooyen, whose film 'Toorbos' has just been selected as South Africa's entry for the Oscars, says part of the reason she decided to film in her mother tongue Afrikaans was so that she could compete internationally. She speaks to News24 about her eight-year battle to turn 'Toorbos' into a film, how pregnancy earlier on in her career would’ve set her back, and her hopes for her baby daughter.

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