Dv8's focus is on commercial, challenging stories that are innovative, unique and suitable to be financed and produced in South Africa .

Dv8 Films produces filmed content across the entire spectrum, including feature films, and documentaries, commercials and corporates. It produces for the cinema and television, mobile and Internet distribution platforms. Some of the recent work produced by Dv8 Films includes:

Feature Films :

• How to Steal Two Million (Durban 2011) by Charlie Vundla
• State of Violence (Durban, Dubai, Berlin 2010) by Khalo Matabane
• Shirley Adams (Locarno 2009) by Oliver Hermanus
• Izulu Lami - My Secret Sky ( Dubai , 08) by Madoda Ncayiyana
• Zimbabwe ( Rotterdam 08) by Darrell James Roodt
• Bunny Chow ( Toronto , AFI LA, Rotterdam Tigers 07) by John Barker
• The Flyer ( Locarno 06) by Revel Fox
• Forgiveness ( Locarno Main , 05) by Ian Gabriel
• Max and Mona (Fespaco 06) by Teddy Mattera

Past Projects by Dv8 partners include :

• Boesman and Lena ( New York , 2000) by John Berry
• Promised Land ( Rotterdam , Tokyo 04) by Jason Xenopoulos
• The Quarry ( Montreal , 1998) by Marion Hansel
• Jump the Gun ( Berlin , 1997) by Les Blair
• Shot Down ( Mannheim , 1988) by Andrew Worsdale

Short films include :

• The Foreigner by Zola Maseko
• Portrait of a Young Man Drowning ( Venice Best Short Film, 1999) by Teboho Mahlatsi
• Husk ( Cannes Main Competition) by Jeremy Handler
• So Be It ( Senegal, Venice Best Short Film , 1997) by Joseph Gai Ramaka
• New Voices, New Visions (6 x 26 min documentaries for Discovery Europe).

Television :

• In a Time of Violence (aka The Line, 3 x 52 min, Berlin , 1994) by Brian Tilley
• Africa Dreaming (6 x 26 min dramas, Rotterdam 1996), by various directors
• Short and Curlies (5 x 11 min), by various directors
• Ulibambe Lingashoni (5 x 52 min documentary series) by various directors
• 80 music videos, music documentaries, live shows for Channel 0 and MTV Base.

Commercials and Corporates :

• MASCOM Commercials ( Botswana )
• SAIBL Corporate

 

Our Team

Jeremy Nathan - Producer : view profile

Michelle Wheatley - Producer : view profile

Dennis Morakiwa Mashabela - Director : view profile

Ndoda Madalane - Director : view profile