Work | Long Form
THE NIGHT OUTSIDE (FORMERLY 'SATURN')
In financing, budget USD1.5m
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2019 | Colour | English with some isiXhosa | Supernatural Thriller
Producers: Bridget Pickering, Fireworx Media Mark Overett, New Holland Pictures Two Fred Burle, One Two Films Writer: Elan Gamaker Cast: Thishiwe Ziqubu, Susanne Wuest, et al. Cinematography: tbc Sound Design: tbc Production Design: tbc Editing: tbc Binger Filmlab 2009 NFVF Development Funding 2010 DIFF Filmmart 2012 IFP 2013 World Cinema Fund Award 2018 "Something's Wrong At Home" South Africa, 1986. Patience Dumisa, 30, a black township princess, must travel to an affluent Cape Town suburb to look after Annie and Jordan, the remaining children of the mourning Willow family, whose eldest son Ben was recently killed in military service. As a series of disturbing incidents leads Patience to believe someone is on the premises, she ends up trapped in the house’s lavish security system. With the Willows unreachable and the police unhelpful, she realises she is dealing with an altogether different intruder: Ben’s vengeful spirit. When it comes after Jordan and Annie, Patience is faced with another journey: she must enter the supernatural world to fight off Ben and rescue the children. |
The imperial
co-written with Michelle Williams Gamaker
In development
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2018 | Colour | English | 85mins | Coming-of-age drama
Producers: Joshua Llewellyn, Severine Tibi Writers: Michelle Williams Gamaker, Elan Gamaker Cast: tbc Ten-year-old first-generation British Asian Ruby Dassanayake spends the long summer of 1989 roaming her mother’s workplace: the Imperial Hotel in central London.
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Violet Culbo
co-written with Michelle Williams Gamaker
In development (Film London)
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2018 | Colour | English | 95mins | Magic realist road movie
Producers: tbc Writers: Michelle Williams Gamaker, Elan Gamaker Cast: tbc Film London New Approaches 2015-6 Cross Channel Film Lab 2016 "A road movie without wheels."
Violet Culbo, a tattooed, mute stowaway from Asia, is discovered in a crate on the runway at Luton Airport. As she performs bodily transformations, a group of other migrants view her discovery as a miracle and become her followers. They begin a pilgrimage on foot to take her through the UK to the village of her ancestors: Culbo, Scotland. |
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Headland
In development (Proper Film)
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2017 | Colour | English | 100mins | Dystopian Romantic Drama
Producer: David Horler, Proper Film Durban FilmMart 2016 Produire au Sud 2016 "Love is a political statement."
HYBRID CONCEPT The Notebook meets Gattaca LOGLINE From behind the borders of a breakaway South African country, a security policeman falls in love with the forcibly exiled woman under his surveillance. Headland short promo from Cinema Suitcase on Vimeo. |
IJspaard (Icehorse)
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IMDb. | Indiewire | Screen Africa | Het Parool (Dutch/Nederlands) | De FilmKrant (Dutch/Nederlands) Stream/Download Vimeo |
2014 | 74min | Colour | Dutch | Mystery Drama
Producers: Raymond van der Kaaij, Dijana Olcay-Hot (Revolver Amsterdam), Elan Gamaker (Samovar Film) Writer: Elan Gamaker Cast: Juda Goslinga, Juliette van Ardenne, Teun Kuilboer, Fockeline Ouwekerk, Waldemar Torenstra, Wimie Wilhelm, Ko Zandvliet, Justus van Oel, Lute Wilhelm, Mohammed Azaay, Sanne Vogel, Richard Wank Cinematography: Christopher Wessels Sound Design: Sara Pinheiro Production Design: Teddy London Editing: Neal Markage Durban International Film Festival, South Africa 2014 Noordelijk Film Festival, Netherlands, 2014 "Sometimes, there is balance in the universe."
A man wakes up from a recurring nightmare in which he and two friends have some months earlier knocked down a young woman and, instead of going to the police, buried her body. When he begins to see the dead woman walking through the streets of Amsterdam, he attempts to find out what happened, and whether his horrific dream is in fact a memory... |
Visa/Vie
Complete, on Distribution
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2010 | 73min | Colour | English with French | Romantic Comedy/Drama
Producers: Steven Markovitz, Platon Trakoshis, Elan Gamaker Writer: Elan Gamaker Cast: Melodie Abad, David Isaacs, Charles Tertiens, Leon Clingman, Siddique Motala, Keren Tahor Cinematography: Christopher Wessels Sound Design: David Plew-Chisholm Production Design: Julia Rosa Clark Costume Design: Bridget Baker Editing: Tonia Selley, Eben Smal, Neal Markage Durban International Film Festival 2010 Sao Paolo 2010 - New Filmmakers Competition CWIFF 2011 Winner: SAFTA Golden Horn - Best Music (Kesivan Naidoo and Restless Natives) Anna Ronquillo, a French-Moroccan immigrant working illegally in a trendy Cape Town restaurant, is caught working illegally. They tell her she has 48 hours to leave. For Anna this is a living nightmare. Having fled a terrible domestic situation she has nothing to go back to in France. Desperate, she has one option: she must get married. She makes a personal announcement on a local radio station to Cape Town’s bachelors: anyone interested in marrying her should meet at the restaurant the following day. There they will have five minutes in which to charm her, and at the end of the day she will make her decision.
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