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Louw Venter
Louw Venter is a celebrated director, screenwriter and performer in South Africa due to the cult avant-garde comedy TV series The Most Amazing Show (starring Corne and Twakkie) which he directed, performed in and co-created with Rob Van Vuuren, and proved pivotal to the emergence of the Zef counter-culture movement in South Africa.
After starting off at Gitam BBDO as a copywriter, Louw has focused on longer form writing and directing for the last 20 years.
His first solo project in television was Rugby Motors, a groundbreaking Afrikaans mocumentary series about working class Cape Tonians, which he created and wrote.
In 2014 he wrote and appeared as the lead character in the feature Konfetti, a multiple international award-winning feature film based on his hit play the Best Man’s Speech.
He’s the recipient of numerous awards and nominations including Safta’s and Silwerskerm awards.
He was selected to participate in L’Attelier at the Festival de Cannes in 2015 with the screenplay for his directorial feature debut, The Tree/STAM, which is produced by the cutting edge URUCU MEDIA.
The Tree/STAM will be distributed in Europe by PLUTO film and locally by Indigenous Film.
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