Education

1974 - 1976 University of the Orange Free State (BA Journalism)
1984 – 1986 University of South Africa (BA Science of religion)

Languages

- English
- Afrikaans
- German

SELECTED WORK

Feature films

Tornado (2008 – Editor)
Director: Regardt van den Bergh
Cast: Danny Keogh, Quentin Krog

The World Unseen (2007- Editor)
Director: Shamim Sarif
Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Parvin Dabas

Faith Like Potatoes (2006- Editor)
Director: Regardt van den Bergh
Cast: Frank Rautenbach, Hamilton Dlamini
Best Editor South African Film and Television Awards

Son of Man aka Jezile aka Mysteries (2005 - Editor)
Director: Mark Dornford-May
Cast: Pauline Malefane
DDK Lyric Theatre Company
Official entry Sundance Film Festival January 2006

U-Carmen E Khayelitsha (2004- Editor)
Director: Mark Dornford-May
Cast : Pauline Malefane
DDK Lyric Theatre Company
Winner Berlin Golden Bear for Best Feature Film (2004)

Forgiveness (2004- Editor)
Director: Ian Gabriel
Cast: Arnold Vosloo, Denise Newman, Zane Meas

A Boy Called Twist (2003 / 2004 - Editor)
Director: Tim Greene
Cast: Terry Norton, Lesley Fong, Goliath Davids, Jarred Geduld

Critical Assignment (2002 – Editor)
Director: Jason Xenopolous
Cast: Cleveland Mitchell, Moshidi Motshegwa, Marius Weyers

Pavement (2002 – Editor/Sound designer)
Director: Darrell James Roodt
Cast: Lauren Holly, Robert Patrick

Promised Land (2001 – Editor)
Director: Jason Xenopolous
Cast: Nick Borraine, Yvonne van den Bergh, Daniel Browde
Best Editor South African Guild of Editors
Best Editor Burkina Faso International Film Festival

Paljas (1996 – Editor)
Director: Katinka Heyns
Cast: Marius Weyers, Aletta Bezuidenhout

Klara Viljee (1992 – Editor)
Director: Katinka Heyns
Cast: Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Regardt van den Berg

Road to Mecca (1991 – Editor)
Directors: Athol Fugard / Peter Goldsmid
Cast: Athol Fugard, Yvonne Bryceland, Cathy Bates

The Good Fascist (1990 – Editor)
Director: Helena Noguiera
Cast: Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, Jana Cilliers, Grethe Fox

The Sheltering Desert (1989 – Editor)
Director: Regardt van den Berg
Cast: Rupert Graves, Jason Connery, Patrick Shai

The Sandgrass People (1988 - Editor)
Director: Koos Roets
Cast: Jamie Bartlett, Lena Feruggia

Circles in a Forest (1988 – Sound Editor)
Director: Regardt van den Berg
Cast: Ian Bannen, Arnold Vosloo
Editor: John Grover

Fiela’s Child (1989 – Sound Editor)
Director: Katinka Heyns
Cast: Sharleen Surtee-Richards
Editor: Terry Rawlings

Documentary films (selected)

Karoo Kitaar Blues (2003 – Editor)
Director: Liza Key
90-minute feature documentay with musician and songwriter David Kramer. The film is a look into the lives of the rural musicians who perform on stage with Kramer in his acclaimed show.

Positive in Lesotho (2003 – Editor)
Director: Teboho Edkins
52-minute documentary about three friends and Aids activists traveling with a mobile cinema in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho. Selected for official competition at Cinema du Real, Paris 2004

It’s my life (2001 – editor)
Director: Brian Tilley
52-minute doc. BBC/Arte co-production on AIDS activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Zackie Achmat.

Ochre and Water (2000 – editor/sound design/producer)
Director: Craig Matthew
52-minute doc. about the Himba people of Northern Namibia and their struggle against the building of a hydro-electric scheme on their ancestral land.
- Banff Rockie Social and Political Documentary category 2002
- Best of the Mountain Film 2002, Mountain Film Festival, Telluride 2001
- Best film: Earthwatch Awards 2001
- Best Environmental Documentary: Tokyo wildlife festival 2001
- Winner: International Rivers Festival, Argentina
- Honoured by National Geographic Society, Washington 2001
- Smithsonian Institute Washingtong medal 2001

Narrative of betrayal (1999 – director/editor/producer)
Co-director: Craig Matthew
An investigation into issues of democracy in war-torn Angola.

The unfolding of sky (1999 – director/editor/sound design)
Co-director: Antjie Krog
A conversation between two women, a white journalist and a struggle activist, about the effects of Apartheid and their perceptions of truth and reconciliation in post-Apartheid South Africa.
Best documentary, Lisbon documentary festival

Landscape of memory (1998 – editor)
Directors: Prudence Uriri; Karen Boswall
Two documentaries about how societies that have come through deep socio-political trauma deal with truth and reconciliation.

This crazy thing called grace (1998 – editor/sound design)
Director: Craig Matthew
A conversation with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his role as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.

Voices from the island (1994 – editor)
Director: Adam Lowe
One-hour BBC documentary about the history of Robben Island.

Mercury - an island diary (1994 – editor/sound design)
Director: Craig Matthew
One man’s struggle against the elements on a tiny volcanic island off the Skeleton Coast of Namibia.

The long journey of Clement Zulu (1993 – editor)
Director: Liz Fish
BBC documentary about the first political prisoners released from Robben Island.

Television: Since 1985 I have edited numerous series for SABC, as well as single dramas.

Transito (2007) 10 part series for KykNet
Director: Koos Roets

Ella Blue (7007/8) 6 part mini series for MNet
Director: Darrell James Roodt

Orion (2006) ten-part television drama for M-Net.
Director: Gerrit Schoonhoven

Awards:

Golden Horn 2006 -Editing: Faith Like Potatoes (Feature)
South Guild of Editors Award 2002 - Editing: Promised Land (Feature)
Burkina Faso Film Festival 2002 - Editing: Promised Land (Feature)
Avanti Award 2001 - Editing and Sound design: Ochre and Water (Documentary)
M-Net/Vita Award 1994 - Editing: Klara Viljee (Feature)
Avanti Award 2000 - Editing and Sound design: My African mother (Documentary)
NTVA Craft Award 2000 - The Fight (Documentary)
Avanti Award 1997 - I know happiness makes poor poetry (Documentary)