Below is my showreel for 2014. I worked primarily as a director, cinematographer and camera operator on a variety of journalistic and documentary work. Enjoy.
Videos
Can administration turn the Makana Municipality around?
Originally produced for The Daily Vox.
The Makana Municipality in the Eastern Cape has been placed under administration by the state. But what exactly does this mean, and how will it help residents of the struggling municipality? We explain.
When the lights go out
Originally produced for 25 Voices, a documentary project by my Television 3 class.
As of the beginning of this year, over 15 million South Africans live on social grants. Future and his family are just some of the many people eking out an existence with these limited funds. They receive two R310 Child Support Grants every month. With this as the only income in the household, they have to pay for food, toiletries and electricity.
Their electricity supply was installed by the local Makana Municipality, which buys units directly from Eskom and sells it to their constituents at a mark-up. This, combined with inflation and rapidly escalating base rates for electricity, makes just keeping the lights on a daily struggle for the poorest of the poor.
A day’s worth of electricity costs Future’s family R22 and they barely receive enough units to make it through the day. More often than not, they will wake up and not be able to wash clothes or cook food until someone has made the long walk up the hill to the nearest shop that sells Makana electricity.
Future is not the only child who goes to school hungry in his community. All he wants is for Eskom to take over the municipal electricity supply so he and his community can afford to keep their lights on.
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Starring Sandisiwe Future Veto
Crew:
– Stuart Thembisile Lewis
– Nolo Lakaje
– Anelisa Salavu
Launch of NALSU
Originally produced for OppiTV, a part of The Oppidan Press.
Educating Jonny
A series of short spoof TV show inserts I did for Passionfish Productions.