Karen Boswall is an independent film maker, known for documentaries that she made while living and working in Mozambique between 1993 and 2007.
[1] Her films cover a range of subjects that include marine conservation, popular music, women & HIV and peace and reconciliation.
In 1999 she returned to directing TV documentaries with Living Battles (1998) and From the Ashes (1999), both concerning the recently ended civil war.
[3] Boswall's 2004 Marrabenta Stories documents young Mozambican musicians who play jazz, funk and hip-hop joining older men who play the more traditional Marrabenta dance music on a tour of South Africa.
[4] Research into a joint project with Jose Eduardo Agualusa to make a film with a strong element of music about the situation of women in the cone of southern Africa, to be called "My Father's Wives", became the basis for a 2008 book by that name by Agualusa.