Liz McGrath Collection Sommelier stars in award-winning doccie 'Blind Ambition' to be released in SA on Friday

 Zimbabwean-born Marlvin Gwese is starring in the award-winning documentary Blind Ambition, that will be released in South Africa on Friday 29 July 2022. Gwese is the Group Sommelier of the three hotels within The Liz Mcgrath Collection, which includes The Cellars-Hohenhort, The Marine and The Plettenberg in March 2021. Gwese first started as Wine Steward at the Table Bay Hotel, followed by his tenure as Sommelier at the Cape Grace Hotel and later at Greenhouse Restaurant. He graduated with a Cape Wine Academy Diploma in 2013 and has been on the judging panels of various wine competitions and makes his own wine under the Mukanya label.

 

Blind Ambition is the fascinating life story of Marlvin Gwese, Tinashe Nyamudoka, Pardon Taguzu and Joseph Dhafana - four refugees who escaped economically depressed Zimbabwe in search of a better life, to find their success in South Africa’s wine industry. The doccie debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2021, where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature. Numerous awards at various film festivals followed before the recent London premiere at the Curzon Mayfair on 16 June 2022, which was in aid of the International Rescue Committee that helps refugees all over the world.

 

The inspiring film will be screened at select cinemas across the country as from 29 July 2022, including the Labia theatre and Ster Kinekor at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, New Metro Hyde Park and Rosebank Nouveau in Johannesburg and Brooklyn Nouveau in Pretoria, and Ster Kinekor Gateway in Durban, as well as Ster Kinekor Sam Levy Mall in Harare, Zimbabwe.