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SA producer, director & writer Ferdinand W Gernandt
The South African and international screenwriting world is sitting up and taking notice of Ferdinand W Gernandt, as the news hot off the presses…
Pointe Shoes Prayers and a Pandemic
Pointe Shoes, Prayers & A Pandemic was filmed in September 2020 and is Produced, written and directed by acclaimed screenwriter/producer Ferdinand W. Gernandt, with Michelle Pieterse as Executive Producer.
A documentary about dance and perseverance
‘I wanted to produce a project that inspires and facilitates positive change,’ says Gernandt.
New SA movie casts light onto world of addiction
The Loft House was written and directed by Ferdinand W Gernandt who also plays the role of John Smith in the film. It was crowd-funded.
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About the Writer
Ferdinand has been part of the entertainment industry for over 20 years and has become a respected and accomplished Producer, Director, and Writer.
In 2014 Ferdinand produced, wrote, and directed the Smash Hit Stage Musical “REIK NA DIE STERRE” which was nominated for 7 Naledi Awards then continued to complete two film projects; a thriller project ‘HAATKLOP’ and a comedy project ‘UIT DIE KASKENADES’ for kykNET Silwerskerm Film Festival.
Internationally he co-wrote on a Faith-Based bio-drama 8DAYS, currently in circulation worldwide.
He has also premiered his own faith-based drama feature ‘THE LOFT HOUSE’ which landed distribution deals with Christian Art South Africa, SHOWMAX Africa, Tubi TV, Amazon Prime, Plex, and Zuzu.
His action thriller feature screenplays ‘DISCORDANT’ ‘THE IMAGINED’ ‘CORPSE GARDEN’ & ‘LITTLE RUSSIA’ got critical acclaim from several international producers, screenwriting contests and table reads.
Altogether, Ferdinand has completed over 20 feature screenplays (6 produced, 3 optioned, 2 contest wins) and 4 TV Series from development to production (1 produced, 1 recommended by coverage) – the above mentioned include paid writing assignments, personal projects, and coaching clients.
Ferdinand has been employed as a senior writer for a local film studio for two years and currently serves as a board member on an annual international film conference, Hané-Saga in Kanab, Utah, USA.
Being an award-winning, produced screenwriter, director, and producer, Ferdinand helps young screenwriters become high-in-demand professionals by equipping them with the key industry screenwriting skills that will allow them to design a marketable concept, a riveting story structure, and characters that pop…
In the end, Ferdinand’s clients understand the key principles the TOP 1% of the industry’s screenwriters are using and nailing every time.
Ferdinand is always on the lookout for new tasks and challenges. He loves searching for a better product, a better team, a better life, or a better world. He believes in making a decision, taking action, to look at the result, and then learn. He focuses on the positive in a situation, celebrates every achievement, and loves making everything more exciting and vital.
It is good to be alive, work can be fun, and no matter the setbacks, he’ll never lose his faith in the endless possibilities of the human experience.
‘The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity’
CURRENT PROJECTS
LOVE BITES
Romantic Comedy
(Available for option / purchase)
A hard-hearted NY chef must team up with a free-spirited cook to win a peculiar cooking contest not knowing the clash of their perspective on love and life will forever spice things up.
Coverage Status – RECOMMEND
Co-Written with Marina Rasnoveanu
BLOODY PROPOSAL
Dark Comedy
(Available for option / purchase)
A romantic holiday turns into a quest for survival when a city boy and his hot-headed fiance-to-be stumble on the killing of a big-shot CEO in the South African wilderness.
Coverage Status – RECOMMEND
Co-Written with Alonso Grandio
LITTLE RUSSIA
Adventure Fantasy
(In Development with KWP Productions)
A troubled college student gets his professor shot and grants a dying wish, leading him into the dangerous storybook world of his mentor’s manuscripts.
Coverage Status – RECOMMEND
Co-Written with Dean H Joffe
THE MYSTIC
Supernatural Thriller
(Available for option / purchase)
A martial arts instructor with ‘abilities’ wages a psychological war with demons that pretend to be the deceased, angels, Christ, and even God.
Coverage Status – RECOMMEND
Co-Written with Lorne Therrien
CAPULET
TV Series Action Drama
(In Development with KWP Productions)
No one has heard of Romeo and Juliet, except those imprisoned, hidden in the middle of the African desert. JESSICA CAPULET, a stubborn romantic must escape a king’s tyranny only to realize she has to return to rescue her family, kill the king and reveal the concept of love to the world.
Coverage Status – RECOMMEND
Co-Written with Dean H Joffe
EMBRYO – TV PILOT
Sci-Fi Action Thriller
(Available for option / purchase)
In the infertile Africa in the near-future, a pregnant teenager has her eggs-cells stolen by the leader of underground in-vitro fertilization, COSTA INC. But when she discovers she has a superhuman connection with them, she becomes a Blue Ring Investigations (B.R.I.) assassin and plots her revenge against the warlord, Zain Costa, to recover her future children and save humanity.
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Movie Musical
(Available for option / purchase)
Years after a terrible series of murders, a young orphan will aspire to play professional rugby while fending off those from his family’s past that still seek revenge.
THE 7YEAR MILE
Action Drama
(Development)
An apathetic PTSD victim undertakes advance driving to reignite the romance in her marriage not knowing she must race her irresponsible husband in a traumatizing debt-clearing chase.
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