Roger Lucey is a high school dropout who through incident, accident and circumstance has become a musician, journalist, filmmaker, actor and educator. He currently works in most of his areas of expertise. He has a production company with his old friend Chris Charles, called Interalios Pictures producing documentary films and television series.
He has been performing more frequently over the past few years and has played in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Zanzibar and has twice toured Italy. His last documentary film was debuted at the Durban International film festival and his latest film has just been completed.. He is currently involved with Rhodes University's journalism department in practical TV production courses and the South African Broadcasting Corporation as a trainer/mentor in the news department.
The Danish organisation Freemuse, recently commissioned a documentary about Roger's musical life in the late seventies and early eighties called ' Stopping the Music '. It tells the story about how the security police systematically destroyed his music career. The film has shown in festivals in the US, Denmark, Sweden and several other places and continues to show even now.
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