Film Producing and Directing (7 Years Experience)
skills include: Project and production management; Manage performance; Strategic Planning and Content Development; Financial Management; risk management; rights management; audience development and marketing; Compliance and Governance.
- Unleavened (2024 Short Animation Film)
- Siyavuta (2023 Short Documentary – Executive Produced)
- Lawino (2023 Short Drama film – Executive Produced)
- Dance of the Desert Stars (2023 Short Documentary – Co-Producer and Director)
- Amanzi (2022 Short Drama film- Executive Produced: Finalist in International Category 2023)
- The Lie (2022 Short Drama film – Director and Co-Producer: Showing on Showmax)
- Blow it (2020 DOP)
- The Whistler (2020 DOP)
- Let Me Out (2020 Short drama film- Executive Produced: Selected for Umgungundlovu Film Festival)
- Eyelash (2019 Short Drama film Co-Producer and Director - IamAfrica Jury Award winning film 2020)
Workshop and Facilitation (6 years experience)
Skills include: mentorship, project management, facilitaion of learning, leacture, development of poe, moderation of leanership.
- AVIWE Facilitor of Film course(2023)
- THALP Facilitator of performance and film course (2022-2023)
- Fame Academy Workshop Facilitator (2020-2021)
- Community Film and Drama Worhsop Director and Coordinator and Facilitator (2020-2021)
- Community Drama Worshop Facilitor (2020)
- Film Archive Facilitator and Tutor (International) (2018)
Theatre Directing and writing (6 YEARS EXPERIENCE)
skills include: Project and production management; Manage performance; Strategic Planning and Content Development; Financial Management; risk management; rights management; audience development and marketing; Compliance and Governance
- Mies Julie (Director - PACOFS – 2022)
- Psalm 69 (Director and Script Adaptor 2018)
- As we Wait (Writer and Director – Global Leadership Summit 2018)
- Beginning till Given (co Author and Director – Global Leadership Summit 2018)
funding and scholarships
- Zuid African Huis (Netherlands Masters exchange program)
- NFVF Short fiction film: Amanzi
- NFVF Short Documentary: Dance of the Dessert Starts
- NFVF Short Documentary: Unsung Hero, Theatre of The Past
- DSAC 4IR Film Project.
- NFVF Short Film: Lawino
Awards and Nominations
- IamAfrica Film competition Jury Award winner (Director) – Los Angeles (PAFF) 2020
- Free State Premier Top 50 Inspirational Youth 2022
- Charlotte Black Film Festival Finalist for International Film Category 2023
- Best Actor - Jika International Theatre Festival 2021
- 48Hour film project, best newcomer 2020
- Zuid African Huis Scholarship (Netherlands Masters exchange program)
- Best musical arrangement Award (Narrator Reflections on a Legend: 46664 with the Odeion String Ensemble, Vryfees)2019
- Richard Miles Award- Awarded by the Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities to an exceptionally meritorious student2015
- Elsa Krantz nomination Award for best actor in department of Drama and Theatre Arts 2015
- Grahamstown Nomination for best playwright Pharmakon 2015
Professional experience
University of the Free State- Architecture Department - Assistant Officer
January 2020 – Current, Bloemfontein
- Lecturing Research Strategies and Methodologies
- Research Hub Manager
- Research Administrator on: RIMS publications and Creative outputs, Blackboard content and Nevada
- UFS Architecture Content and web page Manager
- Live stream PhD symposium’s, conferences, guest lectures
- Videographer for master’s students’ exams
- PhD with design administrator
- Various other administrative duties
University of the Free State- Arts History and Image studies department (Film Program) – Student/Teaching Assistant
February 2019 – December 2019, Bloemfontein
- Assist Honour students with referencing and sourcing of papers.
- Lecture - Film theory
- Assist staff with researching for classes.
- Assist Lecturers with class presentations of Film History Class: Honour students.
- Monitoring departments Facebook and University page
University of Groningen- Film Archive and Media Archaeology Lab / Internship
September 2018 – January 2019, Groningen, NL
- Assist the Head of the Film Archive and Media Archaeology lab by compiling seminars for the first-year film students.
- Manage the day-to-day cataloguing and handling of the film archive apparatuses.
- Data collection, handling and managing of the film Archive.
- Facilitate with the planning of film student excursions.
- Assist film students with their research initiatives.
University of The Free State - Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice/ Research Assistant
February 2017 - August 2018, Bloemfontein
- Member of the Global Leadership Summit steering committee o Workshopping and writing the
- Plays Beginning til Given and As We Waito Directing of All plays presented at the Summito Planning and Facilitating of the Critically conversations with the student body o Planning and Facilitating the filming of the Summit
- Facilitate with the administrative duties for the Acting director of the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice
- Manage creative initiatives for the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice
- Plan and design creative initiatives for social justice dialogues with the student body
- Facilitate, plan and direct critical conversations, dialogues and seminars with the student bodyAssist with data compilation for the researchers
University of The Free State - Drama Department / Student tutor (as part of honours degree)
February 2016 - November 2016, Bloemfontein
- Prepare and present Speech training tutorials for first year to third year B.A. Drama and Theatre Arts students
- Prepare and present Acting Theory class tutorials for B.A. Drama and Theatre Arts first year to third year B.A. Drama and Theatre Arts students
Education
The University of The Free State- Masters in Film and Contemporary Audio Visual Media
February 2020 – 2024, Bloemfontein
Thesis: From Compact to Impact: The Narrative-Rhetorical affordances of the short fiction film in contemporary South Africa.
University of The Free State- Honours in Film and Visual Media
January 2018 - November 2018, Bloemfontein
Mini Dissertation: The aesthetic of the Grotesque as an affect of intense emotion that creates a ritualistic active cult audience.
University of The Free State - Honours in Drama and Theatre
January 2016- December 2016, Bloemfontein
Mini Dissertation: A Literature based study on the relationship between Victor Stanislavsky, Lee Strasberg’s method and Respondent conditioning with specific reference to emotion.
University of The Free State - BA. Drama and Theatre
January 2013- December 2015, Bloemfontein
Bonella High School - Nationals Senior Certificate