Joel Soisson and Michael Murphey began making independent movies together in Hollywood the early 1980s.  They made movies around the world with a lot of interesting filmmakers.  Some of those movies were box office hits, some won some awards, and a few you might not have heard of.  Now, more than forty years later, they’re still at it.  Neither of them still lives in Los Angeles.  Soisson in Seattle.  Murphey in Cape Town.

 

The film industry is not the same industry as it was in the 1980s.  Nor the 90s.  And not even the 2000s.  However, there’s still a strong world-wide market for good independent movies.  Streamers especially, have changed the way independent movies get made.  Things are constantly changing.  Evolving.  Soisson and Murphey have learned to adapt.

 

These veteran indie filmmakers have joined forces with a group of the best of the best of the next generation of filmmakers, in South Africa, the US and the EU.

 

Kalahari Pictures is a Cape Town, South Africa production company that develops and produces movies around the world, with the most interesting filmmakers that we can uncover.

 

Nicolas Velini is one of the next generation of filmmakers who is head of production at Kalahari Pictures.  He leads the creative and production efforts of the company.

 

Velini and the other filmmakers will be around for the next forty years to tell the tale of the evolution of independent filmmaking.