Mogale Pictures
What does your company do?
A Production company that is driven by the PAN African movement and African feminism to validate the experiences and emotions of African women. The company is having its 10th year anniversary in 2026, and has the taken the entertainment industry by storm through bold, beautiful African cinema. The representation of African women has been recognised by 2024 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders alumna, and the owner completed a Leadership in Business track at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The business is recognised by Gauteng Film Commission for it's upward trajectory in the film towards transformation with its first ever Merit award that was given to her in May 2024. She was selected for the Mail and Guardian 200 Young South Africans in 2024, for Film and Media. The company is currently working with the Gender Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy to create a slate of short films that showcase female protests in the global south, set to premiere in August 2025. The business has participated in local and international film markets including The Berlinale Co-Production Market (2025) and the Atlas Workshops through The Creative Producers Indaba (2023).
What is your biggest success?
I am very delighted to share that my first Documentary Feature Black Women and Sex (2024) will have its World Premiere, and is one of the films in competition at the 29th American Black Film Festival (ABFF), taking place from the 11th- 15th of June 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida! The film will have its South African local premiere at the prestigious National Arts Festival, taking place in Makanda, in the Eastern Cape from the 26th of June 2025 to the 6th of July 2025. This film has launched my filmmaking career where I have won local and international awards, including the Best Female Director by the Saxon State Minister at DOK Leipzig, and the Zonta Elster Female Talent Award at DOK Leipzig International Co-Production Market in Germany. The film won the Most Promising Film Award at the Durban Film Mart back in 2019 while it was in Development.
What has been your biggest hurdle?
The biggest hurdle that I have faced in my company is taking money from people who have had bad intentions, and I have learned the hard way that not all money is good money. They came in as investors and contributed R300 000.00 for the exchange 17% of the equity of my Documentary Feature titled Black Women and Sex, we signed a Co-Production agreement, the total cost of the Production was R3 million, with the film being made through South Africa, Nigeria, and Zambia. They were dishonest about the money, which they had full control of at all times, and that caused a serious breakdown in the relationship. They wanted to control not only the production, but my entire business and that is where the contract came in to protect the business, and had very little understanding of the business of film. Mogale Pictures and the party agreed on a mutual termination of the contract, I signed an acknowledgement of debt and paid them back. That was a relief after many months and years of disrespect and regret for taking them on as investors of that project.
