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Portfolio - Work in Progress | Completed
films
Work in Progress
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Title: Greener Grass
Greener Grass is an adaptation of the classic
novel by Hagen Engler (Editor FHM magazine).
It is a funny and poignant look at life in post-apartheid South
Africa with a real kick in the stomach. Sexy, hip, original and
irreverent, it sets a benchmark for iconic South African voices.
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Title: Faan se Trein
Written by Pieter Fourie, Faan se Trein was first staged in 1976.
It made an enormous impact on theatre audiences and played to
more than 80 000 people before the show even began touring. It
then played to full houses for more than 3 years. The play quickly
established itself as a seminal work and is widely regarded as
one of the finest works of Afrikaans theatre ever created.
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Title: "Untitled Comedy Series"
Using the highly successful play by Louw Venter “Best Man’s
speech” as a launch point, we are collaborating with Louw
to create an original and entertaining comedy min-series for international
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Title: The Job Maseko
Story
Job Maseko is an idealistic young Zulu educated
by English missionaries. He aspires to be the perfect gentleman,
but gets stung when he tries to bend an inflexible system. His country,
South Africa is a hotbed of political conflict where Swastika wearing
Afrikaner nationalists clash with loyal Britain subjects in frequent
riots.
Job’s
world is upended when his friend Lucas dies defending him on the
street. Job is culpable and to try and redeem himself he takes
up Lucas’s conviction “In order to be free we must
act like free men”. He enlists to fight in WW2 defying his
father who asks why he wants to die for the white man? But his
best friend Samuel recognises the grand adventure and goes with
him.
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Completed Films
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Title: Confessions of
a Gambler
Based on the best selling novel by Rayda
Jacobs, the film has played in competition in Dubai, Miami, Dublin
and Granada.
Cast:
Rayda Jacobs, Tauriq Jenkins, Steven Pillemar, Sean Michael,
Abeeda Scello, Ganief Marcus
When Abeeda, a 49-year-old devout
Muslim woman, visits a casino with a friend and wins, she finds
herself returning again and again.
Her addiction spirals out of control when she decleares a spiritual
war on god after her gay son has contracts AIDS.
Abeeda’s addiction escalates and within in a month of the
death of her son, she has lost everything and arranges to have
her car stolen in order to get insurance money. But things go
wrong…
In the end, Abeeda, a headstrong
woman must struggles through her addiction and accept the consequences
of the choices she has made all her life in order to triumph.
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Title: Age of Love
Co-production with Monster Entertainment and TV NORGE
It’s often said that love is blind...but is that really
true? If given the chance to chose a woman in her 20’s or
a 40-something on the prowl, will a man go for youth or maturity?
More than just a dating competition, “Age of Love”
is a social experiment based on the question: When it comes to
love, does age really matter?
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Title: Jacobs
Cross
Co-production with the BOMB and M-NET
This is an epic story centred on one man’s
quest to build the next great African Empire.
A ground
breaking Pan-African production with talent from SA and Nigeria,
the show has achieved cult status and is broadcast in over 20 countries.
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Ericsson Worldwide – Solar race
Facilitated production for Bowden UK, Unconventional Productions
and Moonlighting films
A
seriously technically demanding film for Ericsson, that involved
manufacturing solar cars and then racing them around the countryside
on public roads.
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Title: Master Harold…and the boys
Co-production with the BOMB and M-NET
A film adaptation of the Broadway hit play by Athol Fugard. Set in South Africa in 1950 this autobiographical work is a poignant look at human relationships and the formative experiences of the man Time magazine called “The greatest living playwright in the world today”.
The film is directed by Emmy Award winner Lonny Price and stars Freddie Highmore (Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, August Rush) and Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction, Mission Impossible).
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