Amber Fox-Martin

Amber Fox-Martin is a historian, documentary filmmaker, production- and stage manager.

Biography

Her documentary film A Feast in Time of Plague premiered at the 22nd Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival in August 2020 and the Reflections in a Broken Mirror had its premiere in 2023.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Besides these academic projects, she has worked widely as a freelancer in the entertainment industry, inter alia as venue technician, sound operator, venue manager, production manager, assistant stage manager and stage manager for various productions. By 2019, she was employed by the Adam Small Theatre Complex as a stage manager and administrative assistant. Amber has worked as an ad-hoc lecturer at the Stellenbosch University Drama Department teaching sound and stage management in 2020 and 2021. Throughout 2020, Amber also worked as an intern for South African History Online, co-ordinating one of their main projects and fundraising efforts. In 2022, Amber became a director of Attakwa Productions (Pty) Ltd., a female-run production company that focuses on nurturing indigenous narratives and storytelling techniques. The theatre production, and subsequent documentary short, Bientang: bloedspoor/!nau was developed by the company.