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A fascinating portrait of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa today. Combining a corporate profile of Uthingo, the company tasked with managing the Lotto, with the diverse stories of ordinary South Africans who play the lottery this documentary casts a fresh look at economics in post-apartheid South Africa.

Broadcast on Wide Angle, Channel 13, New York.

Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2003
Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival, Canada
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature, Florida Film Festival
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT, 2003
Official Selection: Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New York, NY, 2003

An unflinching look at how South Africans are living with the AIDS epidemic, given the governmental confusion surrounding the issue. The film looks at the lives of South Africans who are living with AIDS, and has received wide critical acclaim.

Co-produced with Lovett Films.

A magazine programme that examines new developments in science and technology on the African continent. From a synthetic engineered heart valve in South Africa, to research into Africa's splitting into two, Hot Science from Africa takes the viewer on a scientific exploration of the African continent.

Produced for the National Geographic Channel, US.

Return to the Dunes follows a conservation project that seeks to return the African elephant to the dunes of the Greater St Lucia Wetlands on the coast of South Africa. Return to the Dunes chronicles the relocation of several elephant families from Hluluwe Game Park in Natal to the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park.

Produced for Discovery Channel, Canada. Broadcast on Mnet.

In competition,  Banff 2002.

Heavy Traffic takes an oblique look at the impact of HIV/Aids on a South African community. The film follows two funeral parlour owners in Soweto as they conduct their business on the three busiest days of the week: Thursday to Saturday. It is a film that manages to be eloquent and understated at the same time.

Produced for the Steps to the Future Programme. Broadcast on Mnet.

Winner Best Documentary Film at Fespaco 1999
Winner Best Documentary Film at Milan Festival of African Cinema 1999

The film uses historical drawings, cartoons, legal documents, and interviews with noted cultural historians and anthropologists. The Life and Times of Sara Baartman deconstructs the social, political, scientific and philosophical assumptions that transformed one young African woman, known all over the world as The Hottentot Venus, into a representation of savage sexuality and racial inferiority.

Winner Gold Avanti Award - Best Documentary Film 2000

My African Mother examines the intense and curious relationship between white South Africans and their "nannies" - who literally acted as their second mothers. Yet few children ever knew their minders surnames or where they lived, or anything of their lives beyond the back yard. Through the director Cathy Winter's own personal narrative of her memories of Mary Mahuma, who brought her up for the first few formative years of her life, extraordinary home movie footage gathered from all over the country, and interviews with the "children" and their "nannies", the film reflects on a particularly South African phenomenon; a relationship both precious and perverse, both one of a mother and child and "master" and "servant".

The Deadline gives the viewer an honest and intimate look at the tensions that lay behind the negotiation of the South African Constitution. It provides a unique behind-the-scenes look at one of the most historic and dramatic negotiated constitutional processes of the 20th century.

This extraordinary film was produced (as part of the Ordinary People series) to mark the first anniversary of the inauguration of President Nelson Mandela. Through spending a 19 hour day with the President, the filmmakers draw an intimate and affectionate portrait of Nelson Mandela. Mandela is caught in unguarded moments, as he chats with staff, makes off-the-cuff remarks and hurries from appointment to appointment. A rare and intimate portrait of one of the world's greatest statesmen. A Day with the President drew the highest television audience for a documentary in South African history.