Andrew Mudge is the writer/director of numerous award-winning short films, documentaries, and music videos. His shorts have screened at over 50 prominent film festivals, including Sundance, Telluride, and Nantucket. After winning the Golden Starfish award (Hamptons International Film Festival) and Best of Fest award (Los Angeles Short Film Festival), his short film The Perfect Gooseys had a three-year run on HBO Cinemax. Andrew was the winner of the prestigious Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival for his Chrysler-branded short film Gabriel Y Gato and feature-length screenplay The P.T. Johansen Field Guide to North American Monsters. Most recently, his State Radio music video, Knights of Bostonia, won a viewer’s choice award on MTV. The Forgotten Kingdom is his first feature.
Since starting in sound on American Buffalo, starring Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Franz, T.R. has worked in various positions on features budgeted large (The Bourne Legacy, Girls, The Adventures of Tintin) to small (The Love Letter, Passionada). In between features, he has produced a number of short films, such as Andrew Mudge’s Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival winner, Gabriel Y Gato, and award-winning commercial director Craig Champion’s Nonplussed, starring Kevin Rahm and Paula Malcolmson. He also produced Vivian Tse’s Preamble, which was nominated for the AAIFF ’08 Excellence in Short Filmmaking Award.
Pieter started his career as a television cameraman and editor before he moved on to direct television inserts and TV shows. He has worked on a wide range of productions, from cameraman for talk show host Jerry Springer to technical director on the 2012 NatGeo Wild series Big Baboon House. Since teaming up with partner Cecil Matlou, he directed various award-winning music videos and short films before he tried his hand at producing, which resulted in the 2010 SAFTA-winning reality show Our House.
Cecil has produced numerous music videos and corporate videos for clients such as Cetelem, Aroma, and Peugeot. In 2010, Cecil won the South African Film and Television awards for best reality TV series, Our House. That same year, Cecil won the Multi-choice Big Fish Producer-of-the-Year award.
Chris Roland emigrated from the US to South Africa in 1995 to become a multi-talented producer, director, and writer out of Cape Town. Roland has produced, directed, or written over 60 projects, including the sitcom Help Wanted for the Family Channel, the virtual-reality ride film Cape Extreme, and the Sid Shanti music video Critical Mass. He has produced 35 commercials for clients including Met Life, Kellogg’s, and Pepsi. Roland has also contributed his powerhouse talents to notable projects like Hotel Rwanda, Stander, Charlie Jade, Three Needles, Man to Man, and Darfur. Projects Roland has been involved in have won or been nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe, Toronto People’s Choice, DGA, and Genie. A true believer in giving back, he is the founder of the Dr. Lionel Ngakane Film School Scholarship Fund and a former board chairman of the Mylife Foundation, which provides support for at-risk youth in South Africa.
Terry Leonard has produced over 20 feature films over his 12-year career. Film highlights are Virgin, Particles of Truth, Dream Boy, Backseat, Sordid Things, Hounddog, Stephanie Daley, and The Last International Playboy. These films have won awards and acclaims from the Director Guild of America, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Independent Spirit Awards. When Leonard is not working on features, he produces commercials with his production company, Strongman.
After studying photography at the Port Elizabeth Technikon for three years, Carvalho joined the film industry as a runner in 1992. His goal was to be a DOP, and he soon started loading on commercials and feature films, later pulling focus. At the same time, he kept up his interest in photography with commissions for private work. In 2002, he got a break to light a public service announcement for Childline. The Childline announcement was very successful, and it won a silver lion at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2003. As opportunity only knocks once, he committed himself full-time to DOP work. He works on TV commercials, feature films, documentaries, and corporate infomercials. For some clients, he shoots both their TV and print campaigns. He has both South Afican and European passports. Awards include the 1999 Avanti Lighting Award: Cannel O; stop fame animation 2003 Silver Lion at Cannes: Childline; Lucy Moonflower 2003 Vuka Best Animation: Childline; Lucy Moonflower 2003 Vuka Best Overall: Women and Men against child abuse; 2003 Best Music Video, SA Music Awards: Thembi; 2004 Gold Visible Spectrum Award: SA Tourism.
Robert Miller is a prolific composer of film, concert, and commercial music. His distinctive style has made its mark on over 1800 commercials, a growing body of film scores, and works for concert and the stage. Over the years, his talent and passion have garnered him six CLIO awards, an AICP award, and three Emmy nominations for the Coca-Cola spots Finals and It’s Mine and Mercedes Modern Ark. Most recently, his scores have appeared in numerous Super Bowl commercials, including spots for Kia, Mercedes, AT&T, UPMC (which aired locally in Pittsburgh), Coca-Cola, and Budweiser. His newest film work includes scores from Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. Miller trained at the Mannes College of Music in NYC and studied privately with American Masters William Schuman, Aaron Copland, and Edgar Grana.
