Projects

Spoorloos V: Losprys (2025) Series Promo

SPOORLOOS V: Losprys (Without a Trace V: Ransom)

8 pt Drama Series (2025) / Co-director & co-writer

Season 5: A wealthy farmer’s teenage granddaughter is kidnapped during her father’s murder trial, and she is the only key witness who can prove his innocence. Her mother is forced to turn to her ex-lover for help – the only experienced detective in the district. A desperate search in a race against time follows, but the family is brought to its knees when friends turn to enemies and figures from the past demand retribution, while a legacy of lies and betrayal is exposed.

KykNet/Ochre Moving Pictures / Co-director: Ilse van Hemert; Co-writers: Mitzi Booysen, Ilse van Hemert

Starring: Angelique Pretorius, Laudo Liebenberg, Neels Clasen, Lienke Vermeulen, Liam Bosman, Nahum Hughes, Louis Minnaar, Melissa Willering, Deon Coetzee, Blyde Smit, Jacques Gombault

Spoorloos IV: Die Eiland (2022) Series Promo

SPOORLOOS IV: Die Eiland (Without a Trace IV: The Island)

8 pt Drama Series (2022) / Co-director & co-writer

Season 4 of the popular anthology series centres on Stefan Claassen as a young architect whose life is thrown into chaos following a chance encounter with his long-lost first love, Emma. When she goes missing just hours later, Stefan becomes the prime suspect in her murder.

KykNet/Ochre Moving Pictures / Co-director: Christo Davids; Co-writers: Ilse van Hemert, Christo Davids

Starring: Bobby van Jaarsveld, Izel Bezuidenhout, Armand Aucamp, Deon Coetzee, Marissa Drummond, Ilse Klink, Hannes van Wyk, Esmerelda Biehl, Donovan Peterson, Brendan Daniels

MÔRE, AS ONS GROOT IS (2016) Excerpt

MÔRE, AS ONS GROOT IS (Tomorrow, when we’re Adults)

TV Movie (2016) Director

Four high school friends try to stretch their final day of youth for as long as they can—but morning is closing in, along with the looming realities of adulthood.

Kyknet&Kie/Luna FIlms International

Starring: Maryna Malan, Stefan Vermaak, Donovan Peterson, Kashifa Sithole

Written by: Fanie Fourie/Kobus Geldenhuys

HONDELEWE (2015) Excerpt

HONDELEWE (Life of a dog)

TV Movie (2015) Director

A woman without a voice fights to keep the authorities from taking away what she holds dear.

Kyknet&Kie/Freeway Pictures

Starring: Theresa Sedras, Clint Brink, Chantel Stanfield, Hanré Froneman, Weslee Lauder, Simon Bruinders

Written by: Kobus Geldenhuys/Elias P. Nel

THE OWNER (2012) Trailer

THE OWNER (2012)

Feature Film, Co-director & co-writer

The Owner follows a backpack on a global journey, touching the lives of dozens of characters. Directed by 25 filmmakers across 5 continents in an unprecedented online collaboration, it weaves diverse cultures, languages, and styles into one unfolding narrative. As the story unfolds, the mystery of the bag’s owner slowly comes to light.

Lights Go Down Productions / Co-writers/directors: Various

Starring: Various

FINALE (2008) Excerpts

FINALE (2008)

Feature Film, Director/Writer

A young and previously isolated friendship is destroyed by age, distance and peers.

Starring: Jaco Vermeulen, Barbara-Marie Immelman, Karen Retief, Lieb Bester, Deon Coetzee, Elize Cawood, Izak Strauss

DIESIS (2004) Excerpt

TACET (2002) Excerpts

DIESIS (2004)

Short Film, Director/Writer

Alia falls in love with an unwitting handsome fellow student but her love is not returned in kind.

Starring: Thahira Syed, Hanré Froneman

TACET (2002)

Short Film, Director/Writer

In the hush of dormitories, the quiet ones are always marked. After dark, it’s heavy footsteps that find their way to their rooms. What happens is never spoken of—but the echoes remain.

Starring: Hanré Froneman