6 December 2024
Die Skynwerper (2024)
At this year’s kykNET Silwerskerm Awards, Die Skynwerper won Best Actor: Short Film for Ben Albertyn (Dinge van ’n Kind), who stars opposite 2024 Silwerskerm winner Dawid Minnaar (Koek) and multi-award-winner Antoinette Kellermann (Mad Max: Fury Road).
The psychological thriller also won Best Direction by an Emerging Filmmaker for director De Wet van Rooyen, who co-wrote the script alongside Linsen Loots. (The pair previously collaborated on Minder as Niks, and Dissonant, which won multiple awards at Cape Town’s 2021 48 Hour Film Project and the global finals at Filmapalooza.)
The story follows Nelis (Albertyn) who lives in seclusion with his paralysed father (Minnaar). When Nelis loses his job, he considers participating in a reality series called Die Skynwerper, but when his audition fails, he becomes suspicious of the series’ presenter, who he believes is manipulating his life from the shadows…
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