CATI WEINEK

Cati has produced beautifully crafted award-winning feature films and social change documentaries. Always intent on working in film, she completed her degree in African History, and began working as an archival researcher in documentary films, while writing. Her first feature, Come See the Bioscope, (1993) and eventually was head writer on audience favourite dramas Zone 14 and Muvhango on SA’s public broadcaster, drawing nightly audiences of 6 million people. Other career highlights include: co-creating the ground-breaking Sediba script programme under the wing of South Africa’s National Film and Video Foundation , producing the award-winning ‘Soul City’ series, raising finance for a 3D feature animation film; nurturing the making of social justice documentaries such as Uranium Road (2007), which stopped nuclear power roll out in its tracks in South Africa, Here Be Dragons (2007) directed by human rights lawyer and filmmaker, Odette Geldenhuys, about Nelson Mandela’s lawyer, George Bizos; and developing films with celebrated storytellers such as Zola Maseko, Twiggy Matiwana, Pieter Grobbelaar, Tristan Holmes, Adze Ugah and Sibusiso Khuzwayo. producing Fred Strydom’s first feature film in 2022, “The Inside Out Man”, and producing Sara Chitambo’s documentary, ‘Black People Don’t get Depressed’ which was selected for Marche du Films Cannes Docs in 2021. Cati has over 30 feature films in development with her partner Dumi Gumbi at The Ergo Company based in Johannesburg but operating across southern Africa. She is a founding member of the gender diverse director and writers’ collective, New Moon Rising, and also is a full member of both the Independent Producer’s Organisation and of the Writers Guild of South Africa .