Current Work
White by Night
Writer/Director | Feature | In financing with Bump Films, South Africa
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...
Colour | English with some isiXhosa | Supernatural Political Drama |
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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
My Father's Son
Writer/Director | Documentary | In post-production
Two South African brothers (one Jewish, one black) find each other, discovering a hidden past of separate but shared pain – and a growing fraternal bond.
Colour | HDV | 58"
Majestic City
Writer | Feature | In development with Kirlian, UK
Returning to the hotel where she spent childhood summers, a newly bereaved Sri-Lankan British artist retrieves a hidden artefact that transports her to hidden world where she must put her mother on trial for crimes against parenting.
Colour | English | Coming-of-Age Drama
Producers: Sophie Mathisen, Samm Haillay
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Participating Project - Attagirl Global 2
Wandering Bird
Co-Writer | Feature | In development with Neufilm, Germany
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