Robyn Slovois a South African film producer, based in the UK. Her work includes the 2000 filmMorvern Callar,the 2006 filmCatch a Fire,and the 2011 filmTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Biography
editSlovo started her career in theatre,[1]before moving into the television and film industry, working first as a script editor and development executive for theBBC,and then as a film producer forCompany PicturesandWorking Title Films.
Slovo's family isJewish.[2]She is the daughter ofJoe SlovoandRuth First— both major figures in the anti-apartheid struggle who lived perilous lives of exile, armed resistance, and occasional imprisonment, culminating in her mother's assassination in 1982. A family memoir in the form of a feature film,A World Apart,was written by her sisterShawn Slovoand starredBarbara Hershey.She played her mother in the filmCatch a Fire,also written by her sister Shawn Slovo. She is the youngest sister of novelistGillian Slovoand screenwriter Shawn Slovo.