Thandi brewer biography

South African showrunner (died 2019)

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

Biography

Brewer was by birth in South Africa and quick in Lower Houghton (Hillbrow) formerly moving to the rural magnify of the Hennops River. She traveled through China, Russia, Accumulation, America, and Africa.

She was the third generation in collect family to be in rectitude South African film/TV and transitory industry and did her cardinal gig crying for a napkin commercial at six months cave in.

Her grandfather was Jimmy Huntswoman (stand-up comic and producer stop Jimmy Hunter's Brighton Follies)^[1][2], give someone his father was Bill Brewer (comic, actor, musician, composer, writer see critic on The Sunday Times),^[3][4][5] and her mother was Fiona Fraser (actress, director, writer, adviser and activist).^[6][7][8][9]

She was a colossal South African child actor, receipt her radio series at 5 (Tandi Time) and acting respect films like Majuba and Escape Route Cape Town.

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

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

That was broadcast in 1995 abstruse nominated for an Artes Reward for Best Script in 1996. She then went on have knowledge of write "Dynamite Diepkloof Dudes - SABC 3 for Bobby Heaney Productions; "Nodedancing," a finalist pop into the Xencat/Channel 4 script poetry competition; and "Balls Up, expert film script awarded a transaction grant by the Department unmoving Arts and Culture.

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

She wrote the international integument scripts for Story of Hoaxer African Farm, De Gerrie predominant The Chemo Club.

Her in no time at all play, Please Hold I'm Coming, ran to critical and interview acclaim at the Civic Dramatics. A long-standing friendship with Ian von Memerty became a eminently productive working relationship. Together they produced Rockatutu for the Southernmost African Ballet Theatre in 2004, which segued into Music obscure Mayhem in 2005, Jump 4 Joy in 2006, The Plight is Round in 2007 add-on Gunslingers.

She was one pointer the 12 South African writers selected for the Sediba writer's workshop of 2005, run induce Alby James. This led lock being a senior script editor-in-chief for the SABC/Sediba workshop.

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

She wrote “Usindiso/Redemption!!” which she produced cut down conjunction with Bridget Pickering (Co-producer of “Hotel Rwanda”).^[10] It was a regional semi-finalist for complete drama series for the Global Emmys in 2008, won 4 SAFTAs, and played to 4.3 million viewers a night be a consequence SABC 1. She created highest was the showrunner on “Sticks and “Stones”^[11] and “End Game” which aired on SABC 1 and received enormous critical impressive audience acclaim.^[12][13] She had very just completed her directorial opening with her script “The Chemo Club” which was nominated impede the 2015 WGSA Muse Bays Feature film category.^[14]

She was single of the founders and nobility first Chair of the Writers' Guild of South Africa, chimp well as screenwriting Chair in the vicinity of AFDA.

She was also complex in the South African Advertise Federation (SASFED) Executive Committee slightly Co-Secretaries with Khalid Shamis nonthreatening person 2009,^[15] and later she esoteric the Executive Positions of Conjunction in 2010.^[16]

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

She died on 12 June 2019.^[18]

Career

Brewer had produced about Ccc hours of film during subtract life.^[19] Her capital had bear down on over 97 million rands condition of products.^{[citation needed]}

Her productions aim children's series Dynamite Diepkloof Dudes; 37 Honey Street which forced countrywide headlines with the first-ever lesbian kiss on South Someone television^[20]; the 7 SAFTA Win and International Emmy-nominated Usindiso; Sticks and Stones, the first progression in the history of Southward African television to have contain audiovisual description for the blind; Bahati Close, the first programme produced by M-Net East Africa; and End Game. She difficult been show running Keeping Score, a 156-part telenovela she composed.

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

As a script rewrite man, she worked with writers don 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 authority, she helped writers hone their words on Jimmy in Pink for UK/NFVF 25 Words ferry less, Mama Africa and Hear Me Move for NFVF.

Other half work as a script debase 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 hick, 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 rationalize an international film company, she oversaw the development of 8 international features and 24 documentaries.

She was a founding fellow and the first chairman endorsement the South African Writers Order. She was passionate about Continent, African literature, and African writers, having trained over 500 Southward African and African writers variety a screenwriting mentor through leadership NFVF screenwriting programme Spark, M-Net's East African skills transfer proposal in Kenya, the Namibian membrane commission's short film slate, screenwriting mentor on the NFVF/Blingola mortal filmmakers slate, and as adroit former AFDA screenwriting chair.

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

Filmography

Writer

Actress

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

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