EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Kimble has opened the latest administration company on the worldwide beat with a roster of UK and South African expertise.
Arrested Industries Expertise will sit inside Kimble’s Arrested Industries, the content material growth, financing and manufacturing firm he runs out of L.A., London and Cape City. Its launch is designed to establish and curate expertise from smaller markets and develop their worldwide careers.
The company launches with a roster comprising author/director Christiaan Olwagen, author/director/creator Etienne Fourie, director Tina Gharavi, Edinburgh Fringe breakout Lyndon Chapman, and actors Daniel Fox, Daniel Schultz and Sam Benjamin.
Kimble will proceed working with LA-based 5X Media, with Arrested Industries Expertise now having a co-representation within the U.S. with the producer and administration agency. 5X will characterize Arrested’s expertise within the U.S., whereas Arrested will rep 5×5 expertise in South Africa and different territories.
“Throughout the course of growing numerous initiatives and particularly whereas spending a while in South Africa, I’ve been fortunate sufficient to satisfy some actually extraordinary expertise, those that I felt wanted to have their voice heard or be seen on a a lot wider stage,” mentioned Kimble.
“Territories like South Africa are producing some unbelievable movies and tv sequence, however till they journey extra extensively, their gifted writers and actors are unlikely to get the highlight they deserve — and that’s the place Arrested Industries Expertise is available in. Typically, we shall be fostering thrilling new expertise, however extra continuously, we shall be taking confirmed expertise from one territory and serving to them to turn out to be recognised within the U.S. and internationally.”
Olwagen’s directing credit embrace Silweskerm Competition winner Poppie Nongena, drama sequence Recipes For Love and Homicide and the Natalie Dormer-starrer White Lies. His newest present, Koek, the Showmax drama, follows a housewife who discovers her husband is having an affair with a stripper, is being shopped as a scripted format and a UK choice is quickly to be introduced, we hear.
Fourie, one other South African artistic power, is understood for function movies comparable to Die Windpomp and Liewe Fersfeedvader and drama sequence Tydelik Terminaal, which received the South African Movie and Tv Award for Greatest Achievement in Directing TV Drama. He additionally printed his first novel, ‘Man in die Maan’. His Showmax drama sequence Tompoppie is at present underneath choice within the U.S., with the script being tailored.
Gharavi directed I Am Nasrine and for the Jada Pinkett Smith four-part Netflix sequence African Queens: Cleopatra and upcoming British romcom Virginia Woolf’s Night time and Day, which simply wrapped taking pictures and stars Jack Whitehall, Jennifer Saunders, Timothy Spall, Haley Bennett and Lily Allen. She may also showrun the upcoming drama sequence The Fox, a Scandi Noir that’s she has been writing and is in growth.
Kimble found UK-based Chapman on the Edinburgh Fringe comedy competition final August, the place his present, Is the WiFi Good in Hell? was nicely obtained.
South African actor Schultz starred in Upon the Edge and had a lead position in Olwager’s Netflix sequence, White Lies. He performed Natalie Dormer’s nephew within the present, which starred the Recreation of Thrones actress as an investigative journalist drawn in Cape City’s felony underbelly after her estranger brother is murdered.
Fox counts amongst his TV roles HBO sequence Era Kill, Sky’s Strike Again and Showtime’s Metropolis on a Hill and have movies together with Protected Home and Eye within the Sky. Most lately, he was seen in Apple TV+’s drama sequence Invasion.
Benjamin has had roles in Peaky Blinders, The Few, The Conflict of the Worlds and Physician Who and films comparable to Zack Snyder’s Justice League. His lately written function movie debut, The Pay Day, premiered on Starz.