Alumni
RECENT FILM & TV GRADUATES
- Ryley Grunenwald – MA with distinction (Documentary Director) “Thanks for the great (screenwriting) course! I learned so much and now have a much better understanding of story structure.”
- Richard Muller – BADA (Cinematographer )
- Darryl Els & Russell Grant – (BADA – The Bioscope founders)
- Coal Stove Productions – (BADA – Wandile Molebatse, Fidel Namisi, Scottness Smith)
- Dr Nduka Mthambo – MA & PhD (Wits) (Head of MA Film Program: Netherlands Film Academy, Holland
- Dr Anthony Ambala – MA & PhD (Wits) (Head of Department, FADA, University of Johannesburg)
WITS ALUMNI IN THE FILM & MEDIA WORLD
- Gary Barber – CEO MGM
- Lionel Ngakane – Filmmaker / Actor
- Ed Jordan – Musician/Composer/Presenter (BADA 1991): – SABC3’s ‘The Wedding Show’, wrote the score for ‘Spud: The Movie’
- Atandwa Kani – Actor (BADA 2011)- ‘Blood Diamond’, plays 16-year-old Mandela in ‘Long Walk to Freedom’
- Nat Ramabulana – Actor (BADA 2009): ‘The Mating Game’
- Imran Garda – News Anchor
- Donna Camargo – FX Artist (BAFA 2001): part of the digital effects team that won an Academy Award 2013 for ‘Life of Pi’. Also worked on ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’, ‘The A-Team’, ‘X-Men’.
- Hanneke Schutte – Writer/Director (PGD Dramatic Art 2006): won the Jameson First Shot competition where she produced a short film, ‘Saving Norman’, under the tutelage of Kevin Spacey and starring Willem Dafoe
- Michelle Makori – News Presenter (BA 1998; BA Hons 2003), hosts CCTV News
- Gavin Hood – Writer/Director
- Ken Kaplan – Producer/Director/Lecturer
- Craig Freimond – Writer/Director
- Andrew Worsdale – Director
- Eran Tahor – Cinematographer
- Giulio Biccari – Cinematographer
- Ntshaveni wa Luruli – Director/Lecturer
- Samantha Nell – Writer/Director/Producer
- Mark Middlewick – Writer/Director