Eyeforce director Raphadu Maphoto flew the South African flag high in Paris, taking home recognition at the Le Book Emerging Talent Awards and becoming the first South African to do so.
How do you make people care about messaging that actually matters? Meet Bohemian, the Joburg studio helping brands and NGOs turn purpose-led campaigns into work people care about.
Fran Luckin, one of South Africa’s most celebrated creative leaders joins Roanna Williams to help Boundless continue its completely madly ambitious and deeply committed pursuit of the world’s most loved ideas.
From 1 April 2026, long-time producer Michelle Duvenage and DIT specialist Cris Duvenage will take ownership of well known Cape Town post company Priest, continuing the studio’s legacy while evolving its offering for a changing production landscape.
Big Cannes Lions news: One of the most sought-after Cannes programmes ‘See It Be It’ just dropped its 2026 cohort, and a South African name made the cut. Congrats Liesl Lategan-Kyriakou, founder and executive producer at Spitfire Films.
Over the past year, The Syndicate has evolved from a solo-led edit suite into a fully-fledged post-production house with serious weight behind it. Now operating from a new space in Joburg on 4th Avenue in Parkhurst, with Gugu Radebe on board as producer and three additional editors on the roster, and a newly launched website, the company can confidently take on full post from offline through to grade, online, animation and sound. For a team that’s been heads-down building, that’s quite a lot to drop on the industry in one go.
The world is in need of soul. That was the starting point for Chicken Licken’s ‘#SoulFood2TheWorld’ campaign, which began with the slightly audacious suggestion that global soul levels are running dangerously low, and that South Africa might be uniquely qualified to intervene. If Soul Food® is what the brand sells, then why not export it? Why not flip the usual narrative and position Mzansi not as the recipient of aid, but as the provider? High time, we say! So, we got some of the creators of the campaign from Joe Public and 7Films in a room to find out how they made this work happen.
Incommon’s latest campaign for Handy Andy sees director Retang Sebeka take everyday household mess and push it into slightly absurd territory, turning chaos into a string of funny moments driven by nuanced comedic performances where the characters are given room to breathe. Retang’s playful, slightly offbeat tone is something we’ve spoken about before, and with this campaign, he’s now stepping confidently into performance-led storytelling.
Over the past year, Katie Pascoe has steadily built a body of performance-driven work at They. First for the trendy burger brand Brash, then a fast-turnaround Pick n Pay x Springboks spot, followed by a slate of KFC social films. What a way to say “Hello ad land!”.
For five consecutive years, Loeries has ranked Marc Algranti as South Africa’s number one music supervisor. Five years people! In an industry that forgets quickly and moves on even faster, that kind of consistency doesn’t happen by accident. Instead, it happens because someone cares, deeply, about music, detail, relationship and getting it right.
Last year, more than 700 mothers in the Western Cape lost a child to road-related incidents. ‘Safely Home’, the campaign directed by LittleBig’s Rob Smith for Ogilvy Cape Town and the Western Cape Government, approaches that reality with restraint and care. While comedy may be Rob’s most visible calling card, this work shows his ability to handle big, emotionally complex stories with a measured, thoughtful approach.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, director Mark Strydom is making things official with Robot, joining the team for local representation and bringing experience shaped across Africa and international markets back home. For the past few years, Mark has deliberately been directing outside South Africa, leaning into work across Nigeria, Kenya, Mozambique, Ghana, India, the Middle East, and parts of Europe. Different pressures, different cultural nuances, but across every market one principle stayed the same for him, “If the work doesn’t feel real to the people watching it, it doesn’t land.”
Composer and music supervisor Markus Wormstorm launched Biblo in 2012 to solve a familiar industry frustration. Directors and editors were stuck choosing between generic library music or culturally relevant tracks that couldn’t be licensed. Biblo emerged as a third option - access to contemporary African sound, built to move seamlessly from offline edit to final delivery.
In this Q&A, Giant Films’ director Paul Ward unpacks his process, his approach to storytelling, and how to navigate brand involvement without letting it overpower the human story. In a one-on-one conversation, we dig into the making of ‘The Philipstown WireCar Grand Prix’, a deeply moving, beautifully considered film that stays grounded while still feeling ambitious in scale and imagination.
New offices, new faces, and now a big-name new addition to the team. Colourist Kyle Stroebel has taken up residency at Mushroom Media Cape Town, adding serious weight to their talent offering and giving Cape Town a new reason to be on everyone’s shortlist for both commercial and long-form work.
They’re here for the spark, the wild idea, the impossible challenge, the moment a project makes your pulse skip. And in just one year, the industry has figured it out: if you’re going to flirt with something unexpected, you call Fling. Fresh from a Loeries haul that includes one Gold, two Silvers, three Bronzes and a Craft Certificate and armed with a cheeky new, unmistakably Fling website, Darling Fling is officially impossible to miss.
Ten years into building JOE*, Founder and Director, Dan Mace, has just finished editing a video that tries to make sense of it all. The highs, the lows, the ambition, the missteps, the learning. At the same time, his latest work for Checkers, created with 99c, has landed, giving the industry a clear example of where that decade of experimentation has led…spoiler… viral hit after viral hit, that’s where!
Thirteen years is a long time in advertising. It’s even longer in production. Which is why Spitfire’s teenage birthday lands with real weight: a fresh reel, a wall of awards, a new generation of women coming up through the ranks, and some of its strongest creative years to date.
Before the local industry had even seen a frame, Robin de Jager’s new film ‘Lil_ith’ was already making noise internationally. It premiered at the Oscar- and BAFTA-qualifying Odense International Film Festival and QFest St. Louis, a rare feat for a South African indie, especially one made entirely by bootstrap grit and obsessive care. Combine that with his growing commercial portfolio and the production backing of Triple Story Content, and it’s exactly why Robin should be on your director radar.
Eyeforce has launched a new showreel and website, marking a refreshed chapter for the production company. The reel pulls together some of their latest work, a reminder of the adventure, authenticity, sport and craft the team has become known for. It also arrives alongside the announcement of photographer Alex Kibble joining the roster.