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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 
Fred Burle, One Two Films
Writer: Elan Gamaker
Cast: Thishiwe Ziqubu, Susanne Wuest, Clayton Evertson, et al. 
Cinematography: Jonathan Kovel
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. 



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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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."
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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
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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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