The Courage to Make a Film

Shot at the Big Time

www.shotthemovie.com

Launched: White LION. For more information on the film go to www.whitelionthemovie.com Click here for news articles and interviews on White Lion

I have written twelve screenplays and six stage plays to date. I've written and produced six plays (and directed two) and taken each one to the Grahamstown Arts Festival, all with funding from the National Arts Council.

I was supervising producer on two M-Net EDiT Award- Winning Films, Smile (2006) and Commando (2007), written and directed by Johann Hyman and Stephen de Villiers respectively, while lecturing at UKZN.

A full-length feature film I co-wrote, White Lion, premiered at the Durban International Film Festival in July 2009 and was released internationally in February 2010.

My stage play A Matter of Time was unanimously declared the winning entry by all three judges of the Olive Schreiner Award 2008.

I offer an online Scriptwriting Course which has attracted students from across the world.

I have my Masters in English (Cum Laude) and am doing my PhD in the same subject entitled, Beyond the Biopic.

I won the 2011 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award for the northern/southern regions as a Columnist for The Sunday Independent.

I am currently producing my own film, A Shot at the Big Time, after raising funds for the short film on www.IndieGoGo.com. Shot the Short was filmed in July 2012, directed by Stephen de Villiers, from Austalia, and co-produced by Magda Olchawska from the UK. A Shot at the Big Time, the feature film, was selected as one of the main feature projects for the Durban Film Mart 2012.  The short is in the final stages of post-production and will be entered into film festivals around the world in 2013, while we raise funds for the feature.

From January 2013, I'll be the Academic Coordinator at AFDA in Durban, the best Performance Arts School in the country.

-