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Plexus Films
Plexus Films produces social, cultural and arts documentaries with a
heart. Our vision is to tell stories with empathy and honesty. Content
dictates form and our work ranges from cinéma vérité to
interpretative use of visuals and archive. While we favour one off
in-depth documentaries, we have produced a variety of documentary formats
as
well as a reality documentary series. We have told deeply personal
stories like the feature documentary, Keiskamma
-A Story of Love (2007) and
followed personal rites of passage in Spirits of the Uhadi (2004).
Plexus Films has covered various social issues for NGO clients, such
as Everybody’s Cup of Tea, commissioned by the Environmental Monitoring
Group and Hostel Stories, for the Development Action Group. Our corporate
clients have included the City of Cape Town, Spier Arts Trust, Design
Indaba, Nederburg and Random House Publishing.
Youth and Children’s programming include contributions to Takalane
Sesame and Get Real We produced the award-winning documentary Krisimesi
- Video Diaries of Cape Town Children, giving children a voice to
tell their own stories.
Plexus Films conceptualised the innovative cultural documentary series
Headwrap - a series that explores new territory, creatively and emotionally
by challenging two artists from different genres to collaborate across
the generational, cultural and social divide to create and perform
new work.
Producer-director team Miki
Redelinghuys and
Lauren
Groenewald are not only committed to telling great stories but
also to developing
new voices in the South African documentary landscape. Some of the
emerging directors and camera-soundpersons who have honed their skills
at
Plexus
Films are Omelga Mthiyane, Benitha
Vlok, Dylan Valley; Kyle
o’ Donoghue,
Juan Kindo, Tim
Wege, Annalet Steenkamp, Bongojalo
Marala and Mariza
Matshaya.
Our production office is managed by Okepne
Ojang, with the assistance
of interns, Chipo Laba and Zukiswa
Pakama.
Our financial director and moneyman, Nellis Brown, completes the
team keeping budgets and the taxman in line with the necessary checks
and balances.
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