Roy Blumenthal

{{Short description|South African film director}}

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• screenwriter
• novelist
• filmmaker
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Roy Blumenthal (born in 1968 in Johannesburg, South Africa) has been an active poet since the early 1990s.

He is the founder of Barefoot Press, which started out printing free pamphlets. Five editions were published, with a print run of 20 000 each.