Work | Television + Short Form

ELIZABETHA
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2017 | Black-and-White | English | Drama/Thriller

Producers:tbc
Writer: Elan Gamaker
Cast: tbc
HYBRID CONCEPT
Twin Peaks meets Room at the Top

LOGLINE
Elizabetha is set in the fictional towns of Lampton and Lampton Borough in the Midlands in late 1962. The story focuses on the exploits of working-class ne’er-do-well and lothario Joe Eccles, 27, as he attempts to gain access to the wealth of the local Marchbank manufacturing empire by marrying heiress Nancy. But as the vicious winter, now known as the Big Freeze, sets in, something strange – very strange – is happening in the twin towns…

THEME
As the UK navigates moves from post-WWII austerity and into the early Cold War period, something sinister is approaching. It's not the Commies but what they're fighting: consumerism. The question is... which will win out?

Hidden Life
Distribution

2011 | Colour | English | 25mins | Magic realist road movie

Producer: Steven Markovitz (Big World Cinema, South Africa), Filmes do Tejo (Portugal)
Director: Vincent Moloi
Writer: Elan Gamaker
Cinematography: Eran Tahor
Editor: Ronelle Loots
Cast: Adrian Galley, Te-May De Oliveira, Jolène Martin-Morgan, Vincent Laurentis, Kenneth Fork

Nominee: African Film Awards 2011 (Best Screenplay)
Brenda is a single mother living in Cape Town, trying to get the best for her young daughter. When her daughter is kidnapped by Japanese mafia, Brenda's past (as a highly-prized geisha) comes back to haunt her. She must perform her former duties one last time to get her daughter back, but the truth behind the kidnapping reveals more to Brenda about the past than she had imagined. 

Television

Series

I have been hired as writer on the following television series: 

standalone

Dirt
2008 | 47min | Colour | English

Producers: Steven Markovitz, Platon Trakoshis
Writer: Elan Gamaker
Cast: Brenda Ngxoli, James Cuningham, Tony Kgoroge, Clare Berlein
Cinematography: Christopher Wessels
Hair/Make-Up: Nathaline Arendse
Costumes: Julita Dewet
Production Design: Di Sole
Editing: Eben Smal