I Graduated Matric in 2012. 

I began attending film school in 2013 where I studied at the  Centurion based  Open window Instiute  where my orginal plan was to double major in film and television and computer animation.   However I grew increasingly frastrated with the computer animation process.  I experienced tremendous self doubt.  Having no preconceived notcion of the highly specailized skills required for computer animation I made the painful decision to drop the course and focus my energy on live action film making.  I learend various skills  including screenwriting and stroryboarding which developed into my two major strenghts.

I graduated from the Open window  in 2015 with a BA in film arts.  After film school I went out into the world of work hoping to find a job relating to audio visual production.  I was able to work as a set dresser on a feature film directed by Sallas De Jager and produced by Bosbok 6.  Following this 4 week adventure working as a intern there has not been much else. Apart from another short film that was produced by a first time director who had money but no idea what he was doing.   I became discourgaged by the whole notion of somehow getting into the film industry. I actually considered relocating to Cape town. However I knew that there would not be any guarantee of actually finding work. 

I had made the decision to drop animation in the hopes of being more practical and finding a job in live action only for it to lead to a dead end.  After a whole year of unemployment I settled for the first job I could find.   I have been working as a general clerk at a lawyers firm for the last 80 months.  I have used my savings to produce self funded short films that had little success.

However given the resources I rekon I could produce a proper short film.  I am not completly discouraged by the notion of producing more 48 hour film projects.  I actually would love to make another thousend films of this nature.   I believe in collaboration.  self reliance has absolutly no merit when it comes to guerrilla style filmmaking.  I have learned that the hard way. 

When it comes to animation  - I keep returning to the theme of storyboarding and story sturcture. During Covid I focused my energy on studying the story structure of Vince Gilligan's Breaking bad. I took the whole season one and storyboarded every single scene to understand how the story was unfolding. I wanted to know what was it that made this amazing series tick.   Having learned everything I know about story structure from Stavros Halvatzis I knew that I could do something with the meduim of animation. 

This is why in 2022 I was a participant in the Triggerfish academy first ever stroyboarding course.  

 I wanted to produce something that could be made into a  animated short film only to discover that I should be writing a children's book.

What I really want to do is finish my first ever children's book and get it published.   Once I am a published author  I would have protection over my own intellectual property.   I want to publish my children's book and have it made into a fully fleshed animated series.  I am prepared to do what ever it takes to make this vision in my head a reality. 

I am very interested to know what I can learn from this incentive.

I would love to one day be involved in the stroy department of a animated production. 

If I were to specify a department I would like to find myself - it would be the story department. 

Storyboarding/ producing rough animatics and figuring out story structure - that's what I want to do. 

I want to lay down the foundation of a narrative in it's earliest conception  and work to produce a finished product that can be developed into a animated feature.   That's the reason why I went to film school in the first place.  It's the reason why I am intrested in this initiative.