Work | Long Form

Sherbet
​In DEVELOPMENT with candle and bell 

"Childhood is one big secret."
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London, 1990. Forced to spend the summer where her hotelier mother works, 11-year-old British Sri Lankan Ruby meets a girl hiding out in the building, whose powerful influence threatens to derail her ordered life.




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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

White by Night
​​In financing, budget USD1.5m
"Something's Wrong At Home"

Cape Town, 1986. During a nationwide state of emergency, a black township princess must babysit two children from a wealthy white family. When a powerful, malevolent force outside the home threatens them, she is faced with the truth about what really stalks the children in her care... 



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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

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

Wandering Bird
​in DEVELOPMENT with NEUFILM 

Berlin, 1941. Emilie Schenkl, an Austrian stenographer, begins a love affair with Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose, in Berlin to collaborate with the Third Reich to free India. Can their love flourish against the backdrop of WWII? Based on a true story. 
Colour | German | Drama/Romance

Director: Kanwal Sethi
Co-writers: Kanwal Sethi, Ziska Riemann

Script Fund MDM

Headland

"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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Colour | English | 100mins | Dystopian Romantic Drama

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)

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