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Director: Gary Lennon
Producers: David Bergstein, Tucker Tooley for Mobius
Geyer Kosinki – Media Talent Group
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Angus MacFadyen and Stephen Dorff
Inner city low life movie set in New York’s
Hells Kitchen and shot on the streets of Toronto with studio interiors.
Cry the Beloved Country
Director: Darrell Roodt
Producer: Anant Singh and Helena Spring for Miramax
Starring: James Earl Jones, Richard Harris and Vusi Kunene
Period movie based on the Alan Paton classic story of a country priest who goes in search of his son in the city. Set in South Africa in 1948.
The Mangler
Director: Tobe Hooper
Producer: Anant Singh and Helena Spring for Video Vision
Starring: Robert Englund and Ted Levine
Horror movie set in New England, based on
Stephen King story and directed by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
Designed and built a Grand Guignol steam laundry.
Won the M NET Award for Best Art Direction.
Father Hood
Director: Darrell Roodt
Producers: Jeffrey Chernov, Sam Mercer, Dan Halstead, Ricardo Maestres for
Hollywood Pictures
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Halle Berry, Dianne Ladd, and Michael Ironside
A road movie shot on location and studios
in San Antonio, New Orleans, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Working within the
Hollywood studio system, this required managing and operating four different
art departments across four cities.
Sarafina
Director: Darrell Roodt
Producer: Anant Singh/Scy Productions for Disney
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg and Leleti Kumalo
Movie adaptation of hit stage musical Sarafina,
set in the 1976 Soweto student uprising against apartheid.
Received a nomination for M NET Award for Best Art
Direction.
Power of One
Director: John Avildsen
Prod. Design: Roger Hall
Producer: Arnon Milchan /Warner Bros
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Morgan Freeman
Was engaged as Art Director to provide authenticity to the vast township set built on location in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Period 1948, South Africa.
Cape of Good Hope
Director: Mark Bamford
Producers: Suzanne Kay Bamford for Wonder View Films
Genevieve Hofmeyr for Moonlighting Films
Contemporary South African movie shot on location in Cape Town and Mandela Park squatter camp, highlighting the contrast between the two environments.
MOVIES OF THE WEEK
The Plain Truth
Director: Paul Shapiro
Producers: Alys Shanti of Robert Greenwald Films for Lifetime Channel
Michael Prupas of Muse Entertainment
Michael Mahoney of Magic Rock Productions
Starring: Mariska Hargitay and Allison Pill
Based
on the book by Jodi Picoult, set in Amish Pennsylvania and shot in and around
Halifax, the tension in the drama, reflected in the look, revolves around
a city lawyer in an Amish world and an Amish girl in the city.
Received a nomination for a Directors Guild of Canada (DGC)
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Production Design for Television Movie/Miniseries.
Bravo Two Zero
Director: Tom Clegg
Producer: David Thompson for BBC1
Anant Singh and Helena Spring Videovision;
Starring: Sean Bean
This
war drama set in Iraq was staged in the Kalahari Desert and Baghdad was recreated
in Fordsburg, a former Muslim community in Johannesburg, partly demolished
during apartheid removals. Prison scenes were shot in the Old Boer Fort, now
restored and housing the Constitutional Court.
Mandela and de Klerk
Director: Joseph Sargeant
Producer Lisa Niedenthal, Bernie Sofronski and Cedric Scott, for Showtime
Television.
David Wicht and Michael Games for FilmAfrika.
Starring: Sydney Poitier, Michael Caine and Tina Lifford
The
story of the political rapprochement of two political leaders, Mandela and
de Klerk, that brought about the end of apartheid in South Africa. Attention
to historic detail, supported by rigorous research, informed the Art Department
at all times. Poitier and Caine were nominated for Emmy’s for their
performances.
Inside
Director: Arthur Penn
Producers: Lisa Niedenthal and Hilly Elkin for ShowtimeTelevision.
David Wicht for Film Afrika
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Eric Stoltz and Lou Gossett Jnr
A drama set in political detention in 1960s South Africa. Drawing on my personal
experience in detention, was able to recreate on the sound stage, actual interrogation
rooms and solitary cells. Working with the late Arthur Penn was a great privilege.
Jump the Gun
Director: Les Blair
Producer: Indra deLanerolle, Jeremy Nathan and Sarah Curtis for BBC Channel
Four
Starring: Lionel Newman, Baby Cele, Michelle Burgers and Thulani Nyembe
Low life working class post apartheid South Africa. A character driven script
developed from actors workshops. Filmed on location in Johannesburg and Soweto
in a verite style.
Nominated for M Net All Africa Award: Best Art Direction.
The Red Phone: Manhunt
Director: Jerry Jameson
Producer: Hanno Schilf, Jan Fantl, Kris Dillinger and Phillip Menz
for Atlas Film & TV Produktion, Munich
Philo Pieterse, Johan Kruger for Philo Films
Action thriller pilot, made for German television, in Cape Town.
Land of a Thousand Hills
Director: Hartmut Griesmayr
Producer: Joachim Schoenberger for Telefilm Saar GmbH
Action thriller, made for German television, in Johannesburg.
A Christmas Wedding
Director: Michael Zinberg
Exec Producers: Alys Shanti of Robert Greenwald Productions for Lifetime Network
Philip Kleinbart
Jim Head, Matt Dorff
Producer: Michael Mahoney for Magic Rock Productions.
A Christmas romantic comedy, set in Carolina and Baltimore, shot in Halifax.
Only Love
Director: John Ermin
Prod Design: Malcolm Middleton
Producer: Gerrit Van der Meer and Njeri Karago for Hallmark David Wicht for
FilmAfrika
Starring: Rob Morrow, Marisa Tomei and Mathilda May
Romantic drama based on the book by Eric Segal. Art Director for the section of the film set in the fictitious country of Gomba,
TV SERIES
Beach Girls
Directors: Sandy Smolan, Geoff Woolnough
Producers: Alys Shanti of Robert Greenwald Films for Lifetime Network
Phillip Kleinbart
Michael Mahoney for Magic Rock Productions
Starring: Rob Lowe, Chelsea Hobbs, Julia Ormond
Romantic drama set in Hubbard's Point filmed on location around Halifax.
Takalani Sesame: Sesame Street (South Africa)
Director: Marc Radomsky
Producers: Seipati Bulane-Hopa, Horace Rayners,
Stan Joseph for Kwasukasukela.
Cooper Wright for Children’s Television Workshop NYC
South
African Sesame Street. Designed and built studio sets embracing the spirit
of Sesame Street, made manifest in an African environment.
Soul City 1 and Soul City 4
Director: Bobby Heany
Producer : Hanneke Pieterse
Directors: Darrel Roodt, Angus Gibson and Barry Burke, Patrick Shai
Producers: Indra de Lanerolle for Films 2 People
David Jammy for M&G TV
South African soap opera revolving around a health clinic and focusing on primary health care issues.
The Principal
Director: Roy Sargeant
Producer: Johan van den Berg for The Line Producers
Clive Rodell for SABC
Series set in 1940s, tells the story of author Alan Paton’s life as the principal of a reform school for African boys and how he came to write Cry the Beloved Country.