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the imperial
In DEVELOPMENT with candle and bell 

"Childhood is one big secret."
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Let down by her absentee father, ten-year-old British Asian Ruby Dassanayake must spend the long summer of 1989 roaming her mother’s workplace – the Imperial Hotel in central London. With the old edifice standing in for childcare, Ruby constructs real and fantasy relationships with staff, celebrities and guests, all the while putting her mother’s job at risk.


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Colour | English | Coming-of-Age Drama

Producer: Maria Caruana Galizia
Cast: tbc
Cinematography: tbc
Sound Design: tbc
Production Design: tbc
Editing: tbc

Participating Project - Attagirl Global 2

THE NIGHT OUTSIDE 
In financing, budget USD1.5m
"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.

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Colour | English with some isiXhosa | Supernatural Political Drama

Cast: Thishiwe Ziqubu, Susanne Wuest, Clayton Evertson, et al. 
Cinematography: tbc
Sound Design: tbc
Production Design: tbc
Editing: tbc

Binger Filmlab
NFVF Development Funding 
DIFF Filmmart 
IFP ENTRANT
​World Cinema Fund Award 

Headland
In development (PrOPERFILM)

"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.
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2017 | Colour | English | 100mins | Dystopian Romantic Drama

Producer: David Horler, Proper Film

Durban FilmMart 2016
Produire au Sud 2016
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IJspaard (Icehorse)
Complete, on VOD
"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... 


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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

Visa/Vie
Complete, in Distribution

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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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)