SKAAP

Short Film

Director / Writer: Mzonke Maloney

In a quiet allegory on the fragility and volatility of power, a young woman finds herself on a rattling taxi to a reality in a new South Africa that is too similar to the old.

HANGKLIP

Short Film

Story: Jas Miszewski & Marius Scholtz
Director: Jas Miszewski
Writer: Marius Scholtz

Hidden up the east coast of South Africa lies a beach house in which George a seasoned musician in the grips of an existential crisis, begins work on his first solo album. Having recently returned from a successful career in London marred by a tragic ending, he navigates a changed South Africa and a resurgence of relationships in the forms of his estranged daughter Sadie and her Xhosa mother, Rita.

THE HUNKS OF MUSCLE CITY

Short Film

Story / Concept: Herman de Klerk
Director: Herman de Klerk
Writer/s: Herman de Klerk & Evan Wigdorowitz 

A new world supposedly occupied only by bodybuilders has its own complexities when it is revealed there are others unlike them.

THE TOWN

Short Film

Director / Writer: Lindiwe Makgalemele

Lesedi spends her days throwing stones at passing cars and hoping for something to happen. Unexpectedly a car breaks down leading her to fear that she is responsible. Still a transient connection is formed between Lesedi and the reluctant visitor.

HYPERLINK

Anthology of 4 Short Films

Directors / Writers: Mzonke Maloney, Julie Nxadi, Evan Wigdorowitz, Nolitha Mkulisi

In four short films young South African makers reflect on the seductive and at times treacherous illusory reality of the internet. Using humour suspense and social criticism this collective production sketches a society dominated by idealised projections of the dreamt self.

Borrowed from IFFR

THE VIOLENCE

Feature Film

Director: Mzonke Maloney
Screenplay: Mzonke Maloney & Evan Wigdorowitz
Status: Pre-Production

After witnessing a murder, Vukile, a mischievous teenager, experiences psychogenic dysphonia and loses his voice. His journey to regain it, takes him to a camp, where he must survive the terrors of harsh ex politician, General Mqina.

LODE

Feature Film

Director: Evan Wigdorowitz
Screenplay: Evan Wigdorowitz

Gold mining started in South Africa on a few small farms in the Witwatersrand Highveld in 1886. These first endeavors eventually led to a reaping of great riches and consequent political and economic power for a few white men. These same endeavors led to a monumental change in the way of life for the multitudes of black men that toiled underground in the mines. Lode documents a glimpse into the life of one of these black men, Thulani, during his first week on a new mine in 1962.

Let them be seen

Feature Film

Director: Nolitha Mkulisi
Screenplay: Nolitha Mkulisi

In Sterkspruit, a magically enclosed rural town in South Africa, humour and surrealism are in the foreground of its people’s suffering.

This hybrid docu-fantasy / sci-fi feature is currently in post production.

WE (DON’T) BELONG HERE

Feature Film

Director: Nolitha Mkulisi
Screenplay: Nolitha Mkulisi

A poor family hailing from the townships of Johannesburg are invited to their first ever family vacation in Cape Town, a somewhat Eurocentric city in South Africa. On this vacation they use their charisma to move across wealthy spaces, doing it so well, that it convinces many of their supposed affluence and fortuitously leads them to an exclusive invitation to the home of an eccentric European Tech Billionaire.

MODEL C

Miniseries

Director: Julie Nxadi
Screenplay: Julie Nxadi

Model C is a coming of age dramatic comedy anthology series that holds a balance of grit and levity whilst pointing to the particular experiences of four young women of colour in a historically white (or former model C) all girl public high school in late 2000s Cape Town South Africa.