Co- Producer

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Cati Weinek –Producer + Executive Producer + Writer - South Africa

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 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 a slate of 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 . 

Link to recent work: 

https://www.headspace-movie.com/

The Ergo Company

Filmography (Producer) 

Masisukumeni – documentary series (dir. Cati Weinek) 2004-5

Affected Memories - 100 interviews at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital for HIV Affected South Africans (dir. Cati Weinek) 2004

Uranium Road (dir. Theo Antonio) 2007

Here Be Dragons (dir. Odette Geldenhuys) 2010

Gog’Helen, (dir. Adze Ugah) 2011

Soul City Series, 26 Episodes (SABC 2) 2014

Mrs Right Guy (dir. Adze Ugah) 2016

Vryslag (dir. Marcel Van Heerden) 2017

Love By Chance (dir. Samad Davis) 2017

Wiele Van Die Bus (dir Pieter Grobbelaar) 2018

The Tokoloshe (dir. Jerome Pikwane) 2018

Freedom (dir. Jafta Mamabolo, Ralph Ziman) 2018

The Letter Reader (Dir. Sibusiso Khuzwayo) 2019

Melody, SABC 2, 26 Episodes 2019 (dir. Muneera Sallies, Theo Davids)

Mother to Mother (dir. Sara Gouveia) 2019

The Fragile King (dir. Tristan Holmes) 2022

Pou (dir. Jaco Minnaaar) 2022

Black People Don’t Get Depressed (dir. Sara Chitambo), coproduction UK, SA, 2022

Headspace, (dir Gehard Painter, Paul Meyer), Animation Feature, SA, 2022

Filmography (Headwriter/ Writer)

Come See the Bioscope (Mnet) – creator and writer of short film

Muvhango ( SABC 2) – 400 episodes as headwriter

Soul Buddyz ( SABC1) 13 Episodes as headwriter with Chisanga Kabinga

Ubizo ( SABC 2) – 4 x 48 min episodes, co-creator and writer

Zone 14 (SABC) – 150 episodes but The Bomb still couldn’t get my name right on the credits) 

Soul City Season 12 & 13 – 26 x 24 min Episodes as Content Writer/Headwriter with Mmabatho Kau

Mrs Right Guy – romcom feature film - creator and writer of the feature film directed by Adze Ugah

Chep – co-writer 

The Russian Princess, adaptation of Mia Cuoto Short Story

Zulu Spice – romcom feature film – creator and writer

Flight 666 – Horror – co-writer

The Way of the Crocodile - Animation feature film, creator and writer

Black Widows Society – Television series adaptation of the novel by Angela Makholwa

Script Editor

The Hidden Garden/The Fragile King

The Tokoloshe – Horror 

Love Lives Here – Romcom (uncredited)

Pou – Thriller (uncredited)

Headspace – Animation Film