Experience

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  Mycelium Media Colab

  • Media Production
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Co Director

    • Aug 2018 - Present

  • Co-chair

    • Jun 2018 - Present

    Mycelium Media Colab is an emerging collaborative enterprise that uses storytelling to inspire a movement towards a healthier world. We bring together the talents, skills, resources and energy of multi-media creatives and communicators. We produce compelling content and experiences that shift people’s minds. Our innovative platform and multimedia content hub is based on collaborative, participatory values.

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  Uhuru Productions

  • Cape Town

  • Director and Producer on Hotspot

    • Jul 2019 - Present
    • Cape Town

    Director and co-producer on a series of feature documentaries on the climate crisis as it plays out in Southern Africa, as we follow key climate justice activists leading the charge for a sustainable future. Drawing on the knowledge of African climate scientists, the films have strong character led storylines, featuring activists in Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and South Africa.

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  Cosmos Productions

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Director

    • 2008 - Present
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Cosmos Productions is an award-winning documentary film production company that produces creative, authentic stories for a range of clients. We create educational, environmental and artistic videos and our strength is finding the humanity in every story we tell.

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  350.org

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Africa and Europe Video Producer

    • Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Creating and producing video content specific to the Europe and Africa teams within 350.org, a grassroots global movement finding solutions for the climate crisis

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  The Children's Radio Foundation

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Communications Co-ordinator

    • Mar 2015 - Dec 2018
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Managed all internal and external communications for the Children's Radio Foundation, including website management, newsletters, weekly blog posts, and all social media. This position also involves communication with designers, public relations management, photography and videography for events, and developing new communication strategies for the organization.

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  Elemental Kids

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Animation facilitator

    • Jun 2012 - Jul 2014
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Working with children on a school holiday programme, I facilitated a stop-motion animation film workshop, where the children got to write, design, plan their own animation film and then create the animations themselves. Over a period of 3 years, in the school holidays, over four films were made, which I compiled and produced.

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  Presence Records

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Editor and Director

    • Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Director and editor for indie musician, Mr Kito's track 'All is Near'. This track is on the album 'Where are the Lizards?' This music video is now featured and circulating on numerous American TV channels and platforms and on the internet.

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  WESSA (Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa)

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Video Producer

    • Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Produced a short video for WESSA about their 'Stepping Up to Environmental Leadership Programme', which trained youth in sustainable leadership over a year-long programme.

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  UNIMA South Africa

  • Film Program Manager

    • Jan 2005 - Apr 2011

    Created and manged the Film program at the Out the Box Festival of Puppetry & Visual Theatre

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  Free Range Films

  • Director

    • Oct 2008 - Apr 2010

    I directed 6 inserts for an SABC Education series called Masupatsela II, which are about inspiring, committed individuals who aim to improve the lives of people around them.

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  Project 90 by 2030

  • Collegue

    • 2008 - 2010

    Created climate change videos for this NGO

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  ZANEWS (Now known as Puppet Nation)

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Puppeteer

    • Sep 2009 - Dec 2009
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    Worked as a head puppeteer on many of the political personalities... Thabo Mbeki, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Helen Zille etc. ZANEWS is a South African satirical puppet show first produced in 2008 by Both Worlds, a Cape Town based production.

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  Eurpean Womens THeatre Festival

  • Artist

    • 2007 - 2007

    Performer with the Paper Body Collective

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  Sithengi

  • Talent campus Manager

    • 2005 - 2007

    Managed the Talent Campus, bringing filmmakers from all over Africa to learn skills in filmmaking, including financing, directing, editing etc.