Brian Letlhabane

Campfire Films

Campfire Films was created by Brian Letlhabane in 2019. Brian has been in the South African film and television since 2003. He was a director's assistant on Hotel Rwanda. He translated the script and worked as a director's assistant on South Africa's first Oscar winning film, Tsotsi. He also directed two short films while writing for Screen Africa magazine, South Africa's only film and telvision trade magazine. A qualified journalist, Brian has written about film for the Mail & Guardian and GQ Magazine. He has served as a storyliner for e.tv's daily soap, Scandal. Brian has worked as a Commissioning Editor for e.tv where he co-created South Africa's first made-for television movie commissioning model and brand - eKasi Our Stories. He later went on to create Mnet's first made-for TV commissioning model - Lokshin Bioskop where he commissioned over 100 TV movies. He later went on to write over 100 episodes of South Africa's second biggest daily drama - Skeem Saam. Brian is currently developing his company's first feature film funded by the NFVF. He has also co-developed two drama series which have been commissioned by the SABC.

Khangelani Mtyhalela

Siyakha South Africa Culture Initiative

I am a Producer Based in Cape Town South Africa. I create concept and currently looking for Co Production Partner in Canada

Ntandazo Anthony (Didi) Gcingca

Didiza Productions

Didiza Productions is a boutique Multi-media Company situated in Cape Town. The company boasts with a cumulative track record of more than twenty years in the multi-media industry and received accolades such as first place in the Sithengi Film Festival won by its management team members and best upcoming film director in the Southern Africa Development Community. More recently, during 2014 the company won second prize at the Standard Bank Grass Roots Accelerator Programme.

Didiza has refined its business model to deliver quality and affordable multiple services such film productions, documentaries, television series, and the facilitation of the hiring of military equipment, installation, personnel and related by the still and film industry.

Through its exclusive facilitation offering, Didiza is able to source military hangers, equipment and vehicles for production activities via its strategic relationship with the Department of Military Veterans of which the owner of the business is a member

As the military veteran, the owner of Didiza Productions understand the plight of military veterans and that of their families and source and provide specialised training to its members from the youth family members as part of social responsibility initiatives thereby creating a pool of young and budding securities.

The company pride itself in quality and excellent, to provide a competitive edge on pricing and delivery of its goals.

Julie Laurenz

Pillay Laurenz Media

Former international award winning TV Journo. Moved onto making documentaries, and more recently I've been developing factual format series for television, one of which is listed below. I'm also developing a fiction feature, inspired by a true story.

Ade Ajibulu

Just Production and Media

Just Production and Media is a South African one-stop media platform for Film Production, Training, Marketing, Distribution, and Publishing. We believe that many hands made a successful production and a tree does not make a forest, and this has helped us to have success collaboration with several production companies from development to production across feature films, documentaries and drama series.

Themba A. Sibeko

Ziya Pictures

I have over 25 years of experience in film, television and video development and production both in South Africa and in the international arena. Having lived and worked in New York City for over 20 years with over 100 productions to my credit I had the opportunity to work with such luminaries as Hollywood actor/Director Bill Duke (A Rage in Harlem, Deep Cover, Sister Act 2), Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon, The Color Purple), Ruby Dee (American Gangster, Do The Right Thing), Oscar Winner Isaac Hayes (Shaft) to name a few. In 2002 I was appointed CEO of the Gauteng Film Commission . As CEO I brokered the finance and secured locations for the Oscar Nominated “Hotel Rwanda". In 2009 I was Location Consultant on the Oscar Nominated Neil Blompkamp Science Fiction hit “District 9” Executive Produced by Peter Jackson (Lord of The Rings, The Hobbit).

In 2012 I Wrote, produced Vuka Mau Lele , a limited series hit for MNET , that garnered over 3million views on pay cable. In 2016 he created, produced and co-directed The Alliance TV mini-series for etv, reaching a 1,5 Million Households over eight episodes.. In January 2022 I was appointed Executive Director of Enterprise and Skills Development for Cape Town based Lightseed VFX (www.lightseed.co.za)

Teboho

Busymoon

Busymoon is a 2D animation studio specializing in development, production and post production. we tell stories through fun and colorful animated content.

Jay Daniel Beechinor

The JDB Film Company

JAY DANIEL BEECHINOR (PRODUCER/BUSINESS AFFAIRS) is a Canadian/Irish film and television producer and business affairs executive with over 17+ years’ experience, having produced numerous projects including MOWs, feature films and television series that have aired on Netflix, AMC, SyFy Network, MTV, Lifetime Network, and the Discovery Channel to name a few. Most recently Jay was an Executive Producer on the award-winning documentary Pat Rocco Dared And is currently producing his first animated project called HORRENDOUS.

Matthew Cervi

Mad Samurai Productions

Matthew started his career in the entertainment industry over 20 years working in Los Angele for companies like Valhalla Motion Pictures (Terminator, The Walking Dead) and Lighthouse Productions (The Sting, Taxi Driver, Mimic) before moving back to his hometown of Vancouver, BC and producing the Genie and Leo award winning short MILO 55160 starring Patrick McKenna.

Matthew followed that success with his first feature THE COLONY starring Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton and produced his second feature CRUEL & UNUSUAL in partnership with Entertainment One. Matthew’s last feature JUGGERNAUT, starring Jack Kesy, Amanda Crew, David Cubitt and Peter McRobbie was produced in partnership with Canadian distributor levelFILM and Telefilm Canada.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from the USC School of Cinema/Television and attended the Producer’s Lab at the Canadian Film Centre.

Kyle Kulyk

Itzy Interactive Inc.

Itzy Interactive Inc. is an independent game developer formed in the spring of 2011. As indie developers for 11 years, we excel in using our mastery of the Unity game engine to bring our creations to life. Since the start, we’ve released three, award winning mobile games to Android and iOS via Google Play, Amazon Store and iTunes App store (with a fourth, Mad Devils mobile tie-in title completed) and in May 2021 released our first title on PC, Mad Devils. Our games, both free and paid, have been downloaded on over half a million mobile devices. Mad Devils was released on PC in 2021 and console ports are currently in production. In 2021 we completed work on the prototype for Lucas: Chapter One, our ambitious, multiplayer horror/survival title through the Canadian Media Fund’s Innovation/Prototyping program which is being shown to investors and publishers. In Fall 2021 we started prototype work on Weird O’s, our wacky, multiplayer party game which will wrap prototyping in October 2022. Itzy Interactive continues to expand our team of industry veterans and new talent alike as we utilize our decade of experience and technical skills with Unity development to enable us to bring our creative game vision to game consoles and PC gamers, and to do so with increasing speed and mastery for both PC and mobile platforms.