“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” – Alejandro Jodorowsky

LETO. The mother of Apollo and Artimis. A commissioned sculpture for Eternal Festival by @danielpopper – and the backdrop for the piece done on Mykonos Island, Greece for Design Hotels.

Momentum and patience. Valuable attributes. In life and in this journey…. A follow up teaser showing the rewards of these elements in the ongoing journey, to educate and inspire.

Produced by DM for Bridges for Music

A cool project to have worked on. Raw story telling by VICE / Noisy. 2nd/creative cam.

Cool little cam

Cool little cam

Cool little cam

With growing support for the BFM intiative it was great to see Loco Dice supporting the cause on their visit to SA.

Produced DM for Bridges for Music

With growing support for the BFM intiative it was great to see Tale of Us supporting the cause on their visit to SA.

Produced DM for Bridges for Music

That time we shot a commercial for Facebook… Shot in 3 countries – India, Brazil and South Africa. Was a privilege DOP’ing the South Africa shoot, along with Paul Michael Charles. Launching mid November and longer versions early December.

‘The Parcel’ will be showing at the Shnit Film Festival on the 8th October. Served as DOP for the project and produced and directed by Hayden Phipps and Brett Williams of One Trick Pony.

Thanks Motion Factory for the mention and CANON South Africa for the experience

GQ write up on the short film I did with the guys at One Trick Pony Films – Hayden Phipps and Brett Williams. Worth a watch. Served as DOP for the project and produced and directed by Hayden Phipps and Brett Williams of One Trick Pony.

Found this place on a recent shoot profiling Thato Kgatlhanye, literally a community built around a dump site. I have never seen anything like this in my life – picture doesn’t do it justice…. The clip with a similarly powerful theme can be seen here…

In the ongoing documentation and keeping an eye on the developement of Bridges for Music, this SONAR tour supported by PIONEER was one of the first major support on the grand stage given to BFM on South African soil. A major step in the corporate support for the initiative.

Produced by DM for PIONEER

Behind The Scenes – David Grier / Cipla – see doccie film here

Soundclip of HaiShoBhowzey‬ performed at iKasi Experience in Gugulethu – full track can be heard here – https://soundcloud.com/amilca-thedon-akamezarati/hai-sho-bhowzey-by-amilca-and-blaq-slimprod-by-babylon-beats#t=1:10http://

Interviewing the boyz behind ‎HaiShoBhowzey‬ – killer track showing what comes from the hoods of South Africa …. track can be heard here … https://soundcloud.com/amilca-thedon-akamezarati/hai-sho-bhowzey-by-amilca-and-blaq-slimprod-by-babylon-beats#t=1:10

Frame grab from shot below…

Shooting short film with 2 guys….

Better combo than I ever thought. DEFYG5 + CANON_C300

Ever get the feeling you being followed? A test shoot for a short film using the Defy G5 with the Canon C300

“Glastonbury is about missing things” – Valentino – Difficult to understand but perfectly true!

BTS – interviews going down – team effort!

Ran into these 2 shooting BFM at Glastonbury 2014

1st South African TV series shot entirely on Canon Cinema Series cameras

Shooting BFM in Langa

Personal cut of Alicia Rowntree for Figleaves.com. Music by Alice Phoebe Lou, an amazing young artist from Cape Town SA.

Launched teaser for Doccie film and thanks to the support it is 50 views away from 40k… thanks to all…

Shooting wit Alicia Rountree for Figleaves 2014 – on location in Mexico

life in the townships

Mostly behind the camera, but pretty stoked with this one shot by Juan in Mexico 2013. For more check out his site.

Shooting for the Bridges for Music piece on location in Amsterdam

Dilo and Vince, in depth in Amsterdam…. BFM

Dilo / Vince – getting aquinted with Boiler Room gear

Poster for short film ‘Bullets Oor Bishops Lavis‘

Borneo 2012 SA swimwear

C300

An archive piece of Marzaan from the Sports Illustrated shoot in 2009

Going deep into the township with DJ Fosta and Shisa Boy