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It has been reported that Director Darrell Roodt's latest film, "Little One", has been confirmed as South Africa's entry into the Best Foreign Film category for next year's Oscars. The announcement was made by the South African Academy Award Selection Committee and the National Film and Video Foundation."Yesterday", another film by Roodt, was nominated for an Oscar in 2005.If approved by the Oscars Academy Award Selection Committee, which makes its final selection of nominees in January, the film will represent South Africa at the 85th Annual Academy Awards in 2013.
Little One tells a story of a six-year-old girl (Vuyelwa Msimang), who is found left for dead on the dunes near a township in Johannesburg. She is found by a middle-aged woman, Pauline played by Lindiwe Ndlovu, who rushes her to hospital.
Saving her life, it transpires that the little girl has been raped and her face beaten in so badly that she doesn't even look human anymore. The story then follows Pauline's journey as she becomes actively involved with the child's case, from going to the extreme of kidnapping the girl from the hospital after her unsuccessful attempt to adopt her, to conducting her own investigation into what happened to the little girl.
