Check out the profile of Dororthy Meck, the producer of Chipo’s Story, a short film that was developed as part of “Untold – Stories in a time of HIV & AIDS” series. The profile was published this past weekend on Zimbabwean newspaper, The Standard.
Her name is familiar in Zimbabwe and beyond, She is one of the few women who have made her mark in a field that like almost everything else has been dominated by men.
Mutirowafanza, Ziva Kwawakabva, Mvengemvenge and Music Box are familiar names for those who were old enough to watch ZBC in the eighties and early nineties, before DStv and Wiztech took over the country’s airwaves. The name Dorothy Meck appeared on the credits of all those programmes as a producer.
She feels that one person who really got her hooked on film was director/producer Remious Musasa who trained her.
“I was an assistant producer to him and he showed me the ropes. He was a mine of knowledge because he would go to Hollywood and work there then come back and pass on the skills.He also taught me the need to keep on going for refresher courses because new things come up all the time,” she eulogises.
