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David Max Brown
David Max Brown produced South Africa’s submission to the 2017 Foreign Language Oscar – Noem My Skollie (Call Me Thief). The film was a popular hit at the South African theatrical box office and won many international awards including the Audience Award at Film Afrika in London. In 2020, it was selected by four African film festivals in the United Kingdom in the top-ten African films of the past ten years, ‘We are Tano(10)’. He also produced Zola Maseko’s second feature film The Whale Caller in 2016, and in 2014, he produced Skeem Saam, a daily show that continues to be one of the most popular television shows on South African television. Since 2017, he has been the head of film and TV at the AFDA Film School in Cape Town and is now heading up projects and industry liaison in the postgraduate department. He is also working with director Oliver Schmitz and UK producer Alexandra Stone on a feature film, The Unlikely Gunrunner, which is based on a documentary he produced in 2001, The Secret Safari, about how the ANC smuggled tons of weapons into South Africa using unsuspecting tourists as the cover. He completed his MFA Motion Picture in December 2021.
Contact: AFDA, Cape Town Campus, 18 Lower Scott Road, (entrance on Tasman Road) Observatory, Cape Town 7925, South Africa.