Award winning drama series Tsha Tsha
Award winning drama series Tsha Tsha





Sex Tips for Girls is a brave and bold drama series commissioned by Johns Hopkins Health and Education in South Africa (JHHESA) as an HIV/Aids prevention campaign with support from USAID.

Curious Pictures continues a proud partnership with JHHESA after their successful collaboration on the award winning drama series, Tsha Tsha.

The 26 part drama series, Sex Tips for Girls is at times funny, always irreverent, intensely resonant, and more often than not, heart-stoppingly honest about sex, love and relationships.

Two seasons of 13 X one hour, broadcast on Etv.


Silver Screen Award at the US International Film and Video Festival 2004 and 2005
Duku Duku award for best actor 2003.
Duku Duku Award for best actress 2003
SAMA Award best soundtrack album 2003.
Gold Camera award at the US International Film and Video Festival 2006

78 x 30min series about a group of youth in the Eastern Cape and how they deal with issues of life, love, sex and relationships in an HIV positive world.

Produced with CADRE (Centre for Aids Development, Research and Evaluation) and series 3 and 4 is produced in association with Johns Hopkins University and the Health Communication Partnership and SABC Education.


An entertainment education drama series produced for the Soul City Institute. Soul City addresses pressing health and development issues such as HIV/Aids, violence against women and literacy. Soul City is consistently one of South Africa's top rated shows and has won numerous television and development awards in South Africa and abroad.

Produced with Ochre media.


Selected for competition at Sundance 2003. Winner Critics award at Hot Docs and Audience Award at Florida Film Festival.

Co-production with Lovett Films (NYC) about the politics of Aids in South Africa. Directed by Elaine Epstein.


A dramatized video for the Johannesburg Roads Agency for worker education on HIV Aids.


A series of patient education videos regarding the use of anti-retroviral drugs in the treatment of HIV and Aids. Produced for ACHAP – the initiative responsible for the anti-retroviral roll-out in Botswana. The films are in use in clinics all around Botswana.

In 2003, we produced an animated film about HIV transmission for Achap.


A series of 5 public service announcements for the international campaign Youth Aids through their partners Society for Family Health and Population Services International. The campaign uses popular youth music figures to promote condom use.


One hour Scamto studio special for etv and Lovelife – with audience, five cameras, studio guests, live music. Produced for World Aids Day 2001.


We produced three films for the Steps to the Future project – a 30 strong collection of films to raise understanding and awareness of HIV Aids in Southern Africa for use in the region and around the world.

BODY AND SOUL 2001
A film about religion and HIV Aids. Broadcast in South Africa, Finland, Sweden, Australia and Austria.

Produced for the Steps to the Future project.

HEAVY TRAFFIC 2001
Selected for competition at BANFF 2002

A documentary about the effects of HIV Aids on Soweto told through the story of two funeral parlours. Heavy Traffic refers to the traffic jams on the road to the main cemetery in Soweto, aptly called Avalon.

Broadcast on YLE (Finland), SABC1 and Arte (France), SBS (Australia) and SVT (Sweden).

THE MOMENT 2001
Selected for Sundance 2001

A short film about the moment before penetration in sexual intercourse – the moment we decide whether to use a condom….or not.


We produced the first 26 part S’camto series in which we taught a group of teenagers to use cameras and interview techniques. We then organised a national road-tour of five groups of teenagers in which they spoke to other teenagers about sex, relationships and HIV Aids. For Lovelife and etv.


South Africa’s first exposure to people with HIV and Aids in a documentary film made for SABC 3 for World Aids Day 1996.