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The Shosholoza Sports Documentary Series documented the history-making story of Team Shosholoza at the 2007 America’s Cup in Valencia, Spain.

Team Shosholoza was Africa’s first ever representative at the America’s Cup - a prestigious international sailing event, and the oldest sports trophy in the world. The Curious Pictures production team filmed on location in Cape Town and Valencia for seven months in order to produce the Team Shosholoza series

6 x 24 minutes. Broadcast on CSN, SS1 and SS2

After three seasons, prime-time viewers are still entertained and intrigued by this issue-based travel show that is both challenging and entertaining at the same time. Presented by and produced in association with one of South Africa's most loved spoken-word poets, Lebo Mashile, L'atitude has a strong feminist voice and an easy intelligence that has made it one of South Africa's top-rate factual programmes.

An exceptional 6 x one hour documentary series that traces the evolution of man and the intersection of science and society. Professor Philip Tobias, one of the world's most respected paleo-anthropologists, takes the viewer on a journey ranging across time and space, tracking human evolution in relation to modern human practice, in a quest to answer key questions facing humanity today.

6 x 52 minutes. Broadcast on SABC 2.

A series of 6 documentaries, made by 6 different female directors, featuring extraordinary love stories from South Africa's turbulent history. The stories are not sweet or sentimental; they are about adult love in the adult world - the complexity, passion, obsession and transgression of true love.

6 x 24 minutes. Broadcast on SABC 3.

Pierre Alain Donner Award, and Best film of the South, Recontres Nord Sud (Geneva)

Ghetto Diaries across the divide featured 6 stories about people separated from each other, either geographically or emotionally. Each pair was trained in the use of camera equipment and asked to document their daily lives; a domestic worker separated from her child who lives in the countryside; a gold miner and his wife, separated by thousands of miles. The result is a poignant and honest series of films about South African life and the damaging consequences for ordinary people.

6 x 24 minutes. Broadcast on SABC 1, YLE Finland.

Winner of Best Documentary Film – Southern African Film Festival
Screened at the International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam. 

Ghetto Diaries revolutionized the way in which South Africans saw television production. A series of 4 video diaries, featuring 4 ordinary South Africans, each participant was trained in the use of video equipment and asked to document their daily lives. The result was a series of extraordinary stories about day-to-day living in a changing society.

6 x 24 minutes. Broadcast on SABC 1.

Winner of Artes Award: Best documentary programme (1993)
Winner of Artes Award: Best investigative programme (1994)
Winner of the Star Tonight Award for best current affairs programme (1993)
Finalist in the Monte Carlo Television Festival

Ordinary People was filmed during the first few years of the "New South Africa". Each episode portrays an event from the viewpoints of three ordinary people. The event could be momentous or trivial, but through the different perspectives, voices and opinions of ordinary South Africans, the viewer gains an intimate understanding of life in a changing society.

39 x 24 minutes. Broadcast SABC, FR3, NHK, Channel 4 (UK), SVT (Sweden), SBS (Australia).