Writing | Screenplays

White Knuckles

Feature Script | 105pp | English | Drama/Thriller
Freshwater Pictures (Trish Lake, Australia)

Scars are permanent.
LOGLINE
Vera Swan, 28, a stuntwoman living on Australia’s Gold Coast, returns to her native South Africa after her mother is brutally attacked. Back within her former community of white Afrikaners, now on the fringes of the new South Africa, Vera decides to investigate the crime herself. But she soon discovers that in a patriarchal world making its own rules in the face of a total loss of power, to out one's own brings wrath and intimidation…

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The Kitchen Sink

TV Series | 5x60mins | English | Supernatural Social Realist Drama

Something is afoot. 

An Interesting Family
Co-written with Justus van Oel

Feature Script | 95pp | Dutch/Afrikaans/English | Drama

Family is a dirty word.

LOGLINE
Anton, a young Dutchman living alone, flies to South Africa to meet his long-lost brother to reconnect after the death of their mother and the illness of their father. His arrival into a world of secrets and violence causes an upheaval in local life that threatens his family, his future, and ultimately his life. 

THEME
An Interesting Family is about family bonds and how secrets and lies lived across the generations come to bear on our descendants. 

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