Fireworx Media was formed in 2008, bringing together experienced Southern African producers, Bridget Pickering, Dan Jawitz and Neil Brandt.
The company produces original content for multiple platforms and genres. Our award-winning producers have a reputation for high quality, entertaining productions, bringing an imaginative and vital perspective of the African continent to the world. We look for the complexity, imagination and humour in ordinary lives.
The common thread in all our content is that it is distinctive, uncompromising, and driven by a value system that believes positive and critical social commentary can also be entertaining.
Passion is an essential ingredient of what we do and how we work. We back talent, invest in the future, and are involved in projects from the seed of an idea right through to delivery. We have filmed across the continent, from South Africa to Sierra Leone, from Angola to Kenya. We thrive on well organized productions that give our creative teams enough flexibility to be spontaneous.
The company has extensive experience in distribution, sales and marketing. We stand apart from others as being truly independent and constantly exploring new business models with broadcasters, funders and investors.
Our projects have been commissioned or co-produced with a range of international broadcasters including ZDF, ARTE, BBC, PBS and SABC. Funders include the Sundance Fund, Hubert Bals Fund, Jan Vrijman Fund, ITVS, Africalia, Fonds Sud, the National Film and Video Foundation and the Open Society Foundation. |
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In partnership
with Black Rage Productions, Fireworx Media
produces all the magazine and current affairs
reports from South Africa for Trace TV. TRACE
is distributed via satellite on pay TV platforms
in 140 countries, and is currently the leading
music/youth channel in Africa.
READ MORE... www.trace.tv |
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