Cape Town, South Africa
$130 - $214 / Day
Request QuoteTina-Louise Smith has worked in television and video since 1999. She has worked as researcher, writer, director, editor and producer on various productions. In 2006 - 2010 she was co-founder of Free Range Films. In 2010 she stepped out on her own to found Accidental Films and TV. From 2012 - 2014 she was Head Producer at Cape Town Community TV. Through Accidental Films and TV, Tina-Louise was Producer-Director on a 48' made for TV commissioned documentary, Mr Table Tennis. Mr Table Tennis had its world premiere at the 18th Encounters South African International Documentary Festival in 2016, where it was awarded the bronze audience award for best South African documentary. She also produced and directed Engender, a 3-part feminist TV show for Cape Town TV. Engender was broadcast during the 16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women in 2015. She is currently in development on a documentary film provisionally titled The Revolution is Televised.
Produced for Heinrich Boell Foundation
A 3-part pilot of a feminist TV programme for Cape Town TV. The programme included vox pops, online content as inserts, a studio discussion with a panel, and the studio audience. I fundraised for, produced and directed the 3-part pilot along with shooting and editing the footage for the opening sequence.
Produced for SABC
This is the trailer for Mr Table Tennis, a 48' made-for-TV documentary film. Mr Table Tennis is an intergenerational film about brilliant table tennis player, Pedro Meyer, and his equally brilliant grandson, Cody Meyer. The film explores how the different socio-economic climates (Pedro, under apartheid and Cody in a democratic South Africa) affect the choices they make in life and in table tennis.
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