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storytellers and storymakers

Spud's dynamic team: producers Ross Garland and Brad Logan, author John van der Ruit and screenwriter-director Donovan Marsh
Ross Garland talks about  producing Spud
A challenge for Spud screenwriter and director Don Marsh

Henk Pretorius talks about Fanie Fourie's Lobola  Henk Pretorius talks about Bakgat
Henk Pretorius talks about Bakgat 2

Alex Middlebrook talks about Master Harold … and the boys

Henk Opperman: Dedicated to Dance

Interviews listed alphabetically

The cast of the ABBAsolutley fABBAulous Show pay tribute to the Swedish super group ABBA

Khalid Abdalla plays a real-life terrorist that in United 93

Writer-director Fred Abrahamse is very happy with the outcome of his gay-themed parody musical Bangbroek
Mountain, the 'Boere-version of Hollywood's serious Brokeback Mountain

Documentary filmmaker Junaid Ahmed realises a life-long dream with More Than Just a Game

Producer Ronnie Apteker talks about his latest film Reeker

Producer Michael Auret brings Master Harold and The Boys to the big screen

SA animator Dan Barker was selected as one of the animator's on Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears A Who!

Writer-director John Barker 's Bunnychow is wowing audiences

Director Paul Berges makes his directorial debut with The Mistress of Spices

Actor-writer Ivan Botha flies off in the Afrikaans comic-book adventure Superhelde

Actor Charles Bouguenon' life has been blissfully hijacked by the psychotic role of
Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show

New Yorker Jay Brannan is the star of Shortbus and Holding Trevor

Director Chris Buck is a major creative force in the world of animation with Surf's Up

Director Bromley Cawood'  Susanna van Biljon marks a 17-year stint with producer Frans Marx 

Musical genius and actor Chris Chameleon talks about and his Klassieke Chameleon

ANC Activist and Freedom fighter Patrick Chamusso' life is immortalised in the film Catch a Fire

Emily Child is sensational in Steven Berkoff's Decadence

Music guru Roelof Colyn  is back on stage with Handful Of Keys

After he shot to fame with District 9, Sharlto Copley is not tainted by stardom and the Hollywood system

23-year-old Matthew Counihan talks about playing a 14-year-old in Full Monty musical

A final conversation with with Fiona Coyne

Popular pianist, Rocco de Villiers celebrated 10 years with One Rocco, One Piano

Mark Dornford-May hits international headlines with his controversial South African film Son Of Man

Director Chris du Toit celebrating 40 years in the South African film and television industries with Hitchhiker

Animator Cory Edwards talks Hoodwinked

Writer-director-producer Jihan El-Tahri launches documentary Behind the Rainbow

Writer, comedian and director Willie Esterhuizen talks Vaatjie Sien Sy Gat

Writer-director Revel Fox is back in action and this time it's personal with Long Street

Julie Frederikse talks about co-writing and producing Izulu Lami (My Secret Sky)

Producer Ross Garland talks about writing and producing Big Fellas

Producer Ross Garland talks about  producing Spud

South African producer Gillian Gorfil produced Blood Diamond

Vuka-award-winning director Sunu Gonera's debut feature Pride

Richard E. Grant's  delightful autobiographical Wah-Wah is finally seeing the light of cinema


Boy called Twist director Tim Greene talks about his latest comedy Skeem

A visit on the set of Hansie


Bonnie Henna plays waife of real-life ANC freedom fighter Patrick Chamusso in Catch a Fire

For Cape Town director David Hickson, a lifelong dream has come true with the release of Beat The Drum


Gavin Hood talks about winning the Oscar for Tsotsi


Brendan Jack's Footskating 101 is 'grafitti filmmaking' in action


Rayda Jacob's adapts and director her novel Confessions of a gambler


Steve Jacobs' film Disgrace follows in the footsteps of his award-winning La Spagnola


Juliet Jenkin talks about the playreading of her new play Sprawl


A conversation with the dymanic 'Coward and Cole' duo Godfrey Johnson and Roland Perold


Creative chameleon Jon Keevy is shares a few thoughts with Jon on his play OWL and being a writer


Danny Keogh talks about Tornado and the Kalaharo Horse Whisperer

Quentin Krog delivers a powerful blow in Boks

Quentin Krog makes his remarkable feature film debut in Tornado and the Kalahari Horse Whisperer

Ouma se Slim Kind marks the sensational debut feature by 30-year-old Gustav Kuhn

South African-born director Jonathan Liebesman is calling the shots in Hollywood 

Gideon Lombard Cape Town makes an impact in ...miskien


A challenge for Spud screenwriter and director Don Marsh


Oil on Water marks Peter Matthews' feature film directorial debut

Director David McBrayer makes a lot of noise with Beat The Drum

Lizz Meiring is South Africa's very own space cadet in the one-woman show Vrou In Die Maan

Stand-up funnyman David Newton alters perceptions and shifts worldviews with his new show Politically Incorrect

Madoda Ncayiyana writes and directs Izulu Lami (My Secret Sky)

Superhelde director Stefan Nieuwoudt addicted to film

Ingrid Jonker's poetry alive in Helena Nogueira's insightful and inspiring documentary feature

Tara Louise Notcutt writes, produces and directs the Afrikaans play …. miskien

Overtone makes an impact in Killer Queen before recording the soundtrack of Clint Eastwood's Invictus

Daniele Pascal's music- drama Piaf- A Passionate Life

For Nicholas Pauling, acting is his life and, ranging from Mozart on stage to a punked-out jailer in Doomsday

Cape Town screenwriter Ann Peacock talks about Nights in Rodanthe

Tim Plewman talks about being Tim Plewman, The Caveman, and an ageing vampire in the musical comedy Fangs

Cape Town actor Albert Pretorius makes an impact with his performance in ...miskien

Filmmaker Henk Pretorius' life is really Bakgat

Henk Pretorius talks about Bakgat 2

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