Facilitators

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Imran Hamdulay is a writer, director and producer based in Cape Town. His films have featured at numerous festivals and markets with his most recent film, Sons of the Sea, the recipient of the Best South African Film award at the Durban International Film Festival.

Instagram @imranhamdulay

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Julie Nxadi is a multi-disciplinary artist from eNgqushwa, Eastern Cape. Her work explores intimacy, banality and opacity in post. TRC South Africa with particular interest in internal chaos, family systems, and exploring the fragments of contemporary South African Social Life.

Instagram @julienxadi

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Sandulela Asanda (she/her/they)is a narrative and commercials director and screenwriter based in Cape Town. Sandulela has worked in film festivals, training institutions, and production. Her short films have screened internationally and is currently working on their first feature film, Black Burns Fast.

Instagram @sandulelaasanda

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Julia Cain is a lecturer at the Centre for Film & Media Studies at the University of Cape Town where she works primarily with the screen production students. Julia is passionate about documentary film, teaching and learning, and developing South African Creatives.

Instagram @julia.cain, @cfmsuct

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Khosie Dali is a producer and founder of Miss K Productions. She is an alumni of CPUT, Durban Film Mart, Rotterdam Lab and EAVE’s producers lab. In 2021 her first feature film, premiered at CineQuest Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Durban Film Festival where it won best feature film in South Africa.

Instagram @grace_prime

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Thea Small is a writer and director, whose work spans television, advertising, music videos and short films. A passionate storyteller, she has written for several notable TV shows, directed SAFTA nominated short films, curated film festivals and is signed to Darling Films as a commercials director.

Instagram @a.small.girl

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Archie Birch has worked in film media and animation for over 20 years. He lectured at AFDA, City Varsity, False Bay College and SAE. Archie freelances as an artist, and educator, and remains passionate about visual storytelling in film and media.

Instagram birch.archie

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Jabu Nadia Newman is a director and photographer. Her short, “The Dream That Refused Me”, for Nowness, earned her a New Director award at the Shots EMEA’s Represented by Romance Films (SA) and Park Pictures (US/UK), she’s directed campaigns for Adidas and Nandos.

Instagram @jabunewman

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Mahlatsi Mokgonyana is an award-winning theatre-practitioner. Mahlatsi’s work has been recognised in South Africa, Namibia, Scandinavia, Germany, England and has earned him critic’s picks and awards locally and internationally.

Instagram @black__orpheus

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Buhle Ngaba is a multi-award winning South African actor, writer and theatre activist. She studied Acting and Contemporary performance at Rhodes University and Processes of Performance at the University of Leeds.

Instagram @buhlengaba

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Kirsten van Schie is a documentary director, video editor and journalism trainer. She works behind the camera on news breaking stories, lifestyle features, documentaries and her own short films.

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Nwabisa Plaatjie is a young theatre-maker, creative producer, and leader with seven years of experience. Her productions have been performed in South Africa, Germany and China.

Instagram @nwabisaplaatje

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Iman Isaacs is a performer, theatre maker, director, mask-maker and educator and has worked and performed extensively both locally and abroad in the film and theatre industry. Iman currently lectures at UCT and teaches Voice as part of Magnet Theatre’s Training Program.

Instagram @iman_isaacs

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Kristina Graour received an MA in Screenwriting in 2014, and a PhD in Film and television Studies in 2019, both from UCT. She is currently the coordinator of the Advanced Diploma in Film Production at CPUT.

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Michael Klein is Cape Town based filmmaker working primarily as a TVC producer and Line Producer. When time (and money) allows he enjoys developing and directing his own short films and documentaries.

Instagram @mikemakesmovie

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Jacques de Villers is a fiction and documentary editor, and has taught film at the University of Cape Town. His work has won awards, including the Toronto International Film Festival (Mlungu Wam), National Geographic All Roads festival (The Creators), and Durban International Film Festival (Love the One YOu Love).

Instagram @cinemanoaware

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Pascale Neuschafer is an award-winning cinematographer experienced in film, television, documentaries and commercials. Her work has been seen across the globe with notable festivals including BFI Flare, Hot Docs, Venice Shorts, Inside Out and the Durban Film Festival.

Instagram @pascaleneuschafer

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Peggy Tunyiswa is a Fleur Du Cap Theatre Award winner, performance artist and artpreneur. She also works in activism and development where she uses the arts to challenge the status quo. On-screen, she has featured in both local and international film and series.

Instagram @peggy_ngqo

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Stephen Abbott is a story and finishing editor, filmmaker, and post-production supervisor. A Wits School of Arts Drama graduate, he combines deep technical experience with a passion for storytelling through moving pictures.

Instagram @abbobbotho

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Kanya Viljoen is a film and theatre writer, director and maker working in Cape Town, South Africa, founding member of Unusual Bones, an interdisciplinary creative company working in theatre, film and performance art.

Instagram @kanya.viljoen

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Antoinette Engel is a producer at Electric South and has worked in film and TV since 2009. Selected for the 2021 RLNS Netflix episode lab, she co-produced the transnational web series Black Women Disrupt The Web as well as 11 short films for the 2019 Female filmmaker project.

Instagram @antoinetteengel

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David Max Brown has extensive credits as a producer spanning documentary, features and TV - including Skeem Saam, and box-office success, Noem my Skollie. He is the head production and Industry Liaison in the Postgraduate Motion Picture Department at AFDA.

Instagram @dmaxbrown

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Jannous Nkululeko Aukema is a filmmaker and composer who works in a wide range of genres and forms, from fiction to documentary, theatre and multimedia installation. His work pivots around themes of ancestral Memory, social-justice, migration and post-coloniality.

Instagram @jannousaukema

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Nasfa Ncanywa is an interdisciplinary artist working in film, theatre and visual arts. She is an artist resident at Masambe Impact Lab, Assistant curator at the Malibongwe Festival, and has been selected for the Black Girl Live Fellowship 2022.

Instagram @nasfancwanya

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Chumisa Cosa is an award-winning scriptwriter and actor. She has starred in series for SABC, MNET, etv and Mzantsi Magic, such as Intersexions, Rhythm City and Binnerlanders, as well as local and international films. You can catch her on Wounds and in upcoming features, Mlungu Wam.

Instagram @ch_is_a_click

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Tandile Mbatsha is a Queer and gender non-conforming performance artist, choreographic-activist, educator, speaker, host, producer, model and scholar. In addition to their diverse performance work, they have recently been commissioned by the V&A Waterfront for the Artist Alliance campaign.

Instagram @tandilembatsha

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Linnet Marian Chihaka is a 500H RYT qualified Yoga Instructor and aspiring Holistic Therapist who has been practicing Yoga for over 8 years. Yoga is the glue that holds her overall well-being together and provides endless tools for moving smoothly and mindfully through life’s adversities.

Instagram @templeheartyoga

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Khalid Shamis is a documentarian and editor living in Cape Town.

Website www.tubafilms.com

Vimeo tubafilms

Instagram @therealdj_khalid

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Sean Drumond is a filmmaker, best known for multi-awarded films Five fingers for Marsellies and Apocalypse Now Now. He is the founding festival manager of the Shnit Short Film Festival’s South African chapter and programmes for Encounters, and the Durban International Film Festival.

Instagram @Seandrums

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Loren Loubser is a performer and creator from Cape Town.

Instagram @lekkerlollas

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Sara Gouveia is a film director, cinematographer and editor, living in Cape Town.

Vimeo Sara Gouveia

Instagram @saracfgouveia

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Gabe Gabriel is a queer South African writer and actor who has also been producing and directing their own content between Cape Town and Los Angeles.

Instagram @gabe4gabriel
Youtube Queer Things

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Dr Alexia Smit is a lecturer at the Center for Film & Media Studies at the University of Cape Town.

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Francis Chouler is an actor, creative producer and educator. He teaches the business of being a freelancers at various tertiary institutions around the country.

Instagram @grancischouler
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Jurg Slabbert is a filmmaker and lecturer at CPUT.

Instagram @jurgslabbert

Facebook Jurg Slabbert

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Francesca Varrie Michel is an actor and voice over artist from Cape Town, who starred as Lexi in High Fantasy.

Instagram @francescavarriemichel

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Mzukisi Ntantiso is a Cape Town based actor and MC.

facebook mzukisi.ntantiso

instagram @mzu_def

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Mthunzi Ramphele lives in LA and is busy pitching his television series, Modern Monsters.

Instagram @mthunziramphele

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Cait Pansegrouw is a producer at Urucu Media and co-founder of the Realness Institute.

Facebook Cait Pansegrouw

Instagram @cait_panties

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Khotso K Manaka is an actor based in Joburg and Cape Town.

Instagram @khotsomanaka

Facebook Khotso K Manaka

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Kiroshan Naidoo is a film and stage actor based in Cape Town.

Instagram @kiroshan_naidoo

Facebook Kiroshan Naidoo

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Julia Bass is a designer and has worked in the film industry in both wardrobe and styling.

Instagram @juliabassjr

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Hope Thangata is an actor based in Cape Town.

Instagram @hopethang

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Kyle Wallace is a freelance editor, UCT graduate and editor of @high.fantasy.

Instagram @kw.updates

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Tamsin Ranger is a Cape Town based producer at Big World Cinema.

Instagram @tamsinranger

Facebook Tamsin Ranger

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Emilie Badenhorst is a film director based in Cape Town. She is also a Creative and the Co-Founder of Unusual Bones.

Instagram @emiliebadenhorst

Facebook Emilie Badenhorst

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Perivi Katjavivi
is a Namibian filmmaker and researcher, based in South Africa.

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Babalwa Carol Mtshiselwa is a @saftassa award winning hair and makeup artist.

Instagram @babalwa.mtshiselwa

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Chantel Clark is a screenwriter and director based between South Africa and the USA.

Instagram @chantelclark

Facebook Chantel Clark

Website chantelclarkfilm.com

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Jethro Westraad
is a filmmaker and cinematographer from South Africa.

Instagram @jethro_westraad

Youtube Jethro Westraad

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Jessie Zinn is a filmmaker from Cape Town, currently doing her MFA at Stanford University.

Instagram @jessiezinn

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Kelly-Eve Koopman
is a performer, writer, creator and activist from Cape Town.

Instagram @thenightbeforekelly

Facebook Kelly Eve Koopman, Coloured Mentality

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Mia Cilliers is a documentary filmmaker based in Cape Town.

Instagram @miacilliers

Website reelepicsproductions.co.za

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Okuhle Dyosopu is a South African documentary filmmaker, based Ebhayi.

Instagram @intombi_yo_moya

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Kyle Stroebel is a colourist at the Refinery in Cape Town.

Instagram @stroobzz

Press Screen Africa

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Sihle Hlope is a Joburg-based director and writer, as well as the founder of Passion Seed Communications.

Instagram @sihle_hlophe

Facebook Sihle Hlophe

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Evan Wigdorowits is a
filmmaker from Joburg, now based in Cape Town.

Instagram @evanwigdorowitz

Vimeo evanwigdorowitz

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Gray Kotze is a cinematographer working in Cape Town.

You Tube In Depth Cine

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Samantha Nell is a writer-director based in Johannesburg.

Instagram @samonelll

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Silas Miami
is a Cape Town-based Kenyan performing artist, photographer and filmmaker.

Instagram @silasmiami

Website www.silasmiami.com

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Aliki Saragas-Georgiou is a South African documentary filmmaker and photographer.

Website www.elafos.co.za/

Twitter @filmingliksi

Instagram @filmingliksi

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Cassandra Mapanda
is an actor and voice over artist based in Cape Town.

Instagram @cassiepammzy

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Matthys Boshoff
is a writer-director from Johannesburg and director of recently released @racheltjiedebeerfilm.

Vimeo matthysboshoff

Instagram @matthys_boshoff

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Aninka Möller is a fabricator, as well as many other roles in the Art Department.

Instagram @momentruined

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