So a couple of weeks ago, I started an edit for a 47 min documentary. It’s for a major international broadcaster, so I kinda keep wondering if I’m mad to try this. The first day I sat down with the director, I showed him some of the footage inside FCP X. The whole skimming thing [...] Read more – ‘FCP X in full length Documentary – week 1’.
Canon’s latest release in the world of cameras is already creating quite a buzz. Nino Leitner’s review (and test film) praises it highly, and it certainly looks to be a camera I will be shooting on next year. Nino has just posted a couple of source media, straight from the camera, onto his blog. I [...] Read more – ‘C300 and FCP X’.
Over the past 50 years, many African countries have striven to include more women in formal politics. The results of this are striking: while in 1960 only 1% of Africa’s political representatives were women, in 2009, this figure was closer to 20%. However, this has not always filtered through to correcting social, economic and cultural [...] Read more – ‘Engendering Leadership’.
On World Aids Day in 2008, Larry Joe was performing at a government function in Douglas and met Aron Turest-Swartz, there with Freshly Ground, the well known multi-award winning South African band that he co-founded in 2002. Impressed by Larry’s outstanding voice and the songs he had written behind bars, Aron approached Larry and the [...] Read more – ‘Let You Know Music video’.
In Xhosa, Zwelethemba means Land of Hope. It is a small township on the outskirts of Worcester, about 2 hours from Cape Town. On the surface, it is far from hopeful – the township is classic Apartheid – one road in and out, far away from town, bordering an industrial area. In 2007 xenophobia flared [...] Read more – ‘Land of Hope’.
Lucid Pictures is currently working with Shikaya to produce a 3 hour multimedia workshop for over 300 high schools in the Western Cape, entitled ‘Up2Us’. The project features case studies that get learners grappling with leading a values-based life. Ultimately the purpose of the project is to create a compassionate society. We’re creating a journey [...] Read more – ‘It’s Up to Us’.
Together with TakeAwayTheatre, who have worked with this subject for five years, we developed radio ads in English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa and placed them on air. As part of an integrated campain, TakeAwayTheatre also secured radio interviews and produced attention-grabbing, interactive whole-day performances, using masks and improvisation, in shopping malls. Read more – ‘Foetal Alcohol Syndrome radio spots’.
So my most recent project “My City” enjoyed a very receptive welcome at COP 15 in Copenhagen. The film takes a look at sustainable energy in South African cities through the eyes of a schoolgirl doing an after-hours rehearsal of her school oral entitled “My City” – watch it here. Commissioned by Sustainable Energy Africa(SEA), [...] Read more – ‘None like it hot’.
