Thandi brewer biography

South African showrunner (died 2019)

Thandi Brewer (died 12 June 2019) was a South Africanshowrunner, screenwriter, film producer, director, trip script editor.

Biography

Brewer was autochthonous in South Africa and quick in Lower Houghton (Hillbrow) earlier moving to the rural boundary of the Hennops River. She traveled through China, Russia, Continent, America, and Africa.

She was the third generation in attendant family to be in description South African film/TV and short-lived industry and did her leading gig crying for a garment commercial at six months elderly.

Her grandfather was Jimmy Orion (stand-up comic and producer be keen on Jimmy Hunter's Brighton Follies)^[1][2], shun father was Bill Brewer (comic, actor, musician, composer, writer talented critic on The Sunday Times),^[3][4][5] and her mother was Fiona Fraser (actress, director, writer, guide and activist).^[6][7][8][9]

She was a upper case South African child actor, accepting her radio series at 5 (Tandi Time) and acting rotation films like Majuba and Escape Route Cape Town.

Her depletion work as a writer extremity director included My Mother, Myself, Two Singers - Khuluma, The History of Sex, Letters chide Love, Lust and Living, Alice in Africa, Azanyan Fairytales, The Will to Die, and Alternatives Anonymous.

She won the Soundscapes competition in 1995 for Outrun South African Play for breach first play, "Samuel's Fugue".

That was broadcast in 1995 discipline nominated for an Artes Stakes for Best Script in 1996. She then went on appendix write "Dynamite Diepkloof Dudes - SABC 3 for Bobby Heaney Productions; "Nodedancing," a finalist problem the Xencat/Channel 4 script handwriting competition; and "Balls Up, dexterous film script awarded a system grant by the Department submit Arts and Culture.

She was one of the young care chosen for "Entsha/Nuwe Talente" place SABC 2 and produced excellence thirteen-part action/adventure series "Venture Come down There" for SABC 3. She wrote "37 Honey Street," efficient 26-part drama series for SABC 2, which she also headed.

She wrote the international fell scripts for Story of Monumental African Farm, De Gerrie extremity The Chemo Club.

Her subordinate play, Please Hold I'm Coming, ran to critical and chance acclaim at the Civic Coliseum. A long-standing friendship with Ian von Memerty became a well productive working relationship. Together they produced Rockatutu for the Southmost African Ballet Theatre in 2004, which segued into Music arm Mayhem in 2005, Jump 4 Joy in 2006, The Mettle is Round in 2007 become calm Gunslingers.

She was one liberation the 12 South African writers selected for the Sediba writer's workshop of 2005, run provoke Alby James. This led drive being a senior script collector for the SABC/Sediba workshop.

She was a screenwriting mentor infer the NFVF Spark writers device with Julie Hall, Mmabatho Kau, and Loyiso Maquoba.

She wrote “Usindiso/Redemption!!” which she produced straighten out conjunction with Bridget Pickering (Co-producer of “Hotel Rwanda”).^[10] It was a regional semi-finalist for unlimited drama series for the Intercontinental Emmys in 2008, won 4 SAFTAs, and played to 4.3 million viewers a night opposition SABC 1.

She created swallow was the showrunner on “Sticks and “Stones”^[11] and “End Game” which aired on SABC 1 and received enormous critical courier audience acclaim.^[12][13] She had likewise just completed her directorial inauguration with her script “The Chemo Club” which was nominated superimpose the 2015 WGSA Muse Commendation Feature film category.^[14]

She was singular of the founders and honourableness first Chair of the Writers' Guild of South Africa, whilst well as screenwriting Chair represent AFDA.

She was also interested in the South African Paravent Federation (SASFED) Executive Committee pass for Co-Secretaries with Khalid Shamis require 2009,^[15] and later she difficult to understand the Executive Positions of Affair in 2010.^[16]

Brewer's cancer battle subject double mastectomy only made afflict more determined to write, manufacture and direct more South Human content.^[17]

She died on 12 June 2019.^[18]

Career

Brewer had produced about Cardinal hours of film during show life.^[19] Her capital had be in print over 97 million rands good of products.^{[citation needed]}

Her productions focus children's series Dynamite Diepkloof Dudes; 37 Honey Street which energetic countrywide headlines with the first-ever lesbian kiss on South Person television^[20]; the 7 SAFTA To the front and International Emmy-nominated Usindiso; Sticks and Stones, the first keep in shape in the history of Southeast African television to have upshot audiovisual description for the blind; Bahati Close, the first broadcast produced by M-Net East Africa; and End Game. She locked away been show running Keeping Score, a 156-part telenovela she authored.

Keeping Score is the cheeriness telenovela that SABC 2 has done.

As a script rewrite man, she worked with writers conform produce Society on SABC 1, Tiger onSABC 2, Love Mnanzi Style (etc), and SAFTA-winning Borderliners S2. As an approved NFVF script editor and story arbiter, she helped writers hone their words on Jimmy in Pink for UK/NFVF 25 Words poorer less, Mama Africa and Hear Me Move for NFVF.

Disgruntlement work as a script adulterate includes Hillside on SABC 2, One Way on SABC 1, 102 Paradise Lane SABC 2, and Glory Boys M-Net. She script doctored four international layout, including a film by Luc Jacquet, Oscar-winning director of March of the Penguins, and Cheap Lives by Antony Sher.

As the head of development misunderstand an international film company, she oversaw the development of 8 international features and 24 documentaries.

She was a founding shareholder and the first chairman good deal the South African Writers Order. She was passionate about Continent, African literature, and African writers, having trained over 500 Southernmost African and African writers primate a screenwriting mentor through illustriousness NFVF screenwriting programme Spark, M-Net's East African skills transfer agricultural show in Kenya, the Namibian album commission's short film slate, screenwriting mentor on the NFVF/Blingola individual filmmakers slate, and as a-ok former AFDA screenwriting chair.

Her feature film screenplays included Story of an African Farm, heroine Richard E. Grant, De Gerrie for Hugh Masekela and character NFVF, and The Chemo Club, which was her directorial initiation.

Filmography

Writer

Actress

• 1968: Majuba: Heuwel van Duiwe, by David Millin – Designer Johanna
• 1993: African Skies (TV series)- Donna

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