Break into
Film & TV.

My
Story

I grew up in South Africa, where storytelling felt like second nature. A year studying at Kingston University brought me to the UK, before I headed back to Cape Town to finish my film education properly, and then the real education began.

Like most people in this industry, I started at the bottom. Three years as a runner, making tea and coffee, keeping my head down and my eyes wide open. But those years were anything but wasted. I was in rooms with industry legends, watching, absorbing, learning how great work gets made.

From there I moved into VT operating, but my sights were already fixed on something more specific: Steadicam. I found my way to a well known Steadicam operator and what followed was something straight out of a training montage: drilling the same moves over and over at the back of his apartment staircase. Breaking down the rig, building it back up. Pushing through the burn when my arms had nothing left. It wasn't glamorous. It wasn't supposed to be. It was the kind of graft that either breaks you or makes you, and I wasn't going anywhere.

"Every great shot starts somewhere. Mine started at the back of a staircase."

My first break came on a morning TV show called Espresso, before commercials pulled me back in, the world where it had all started for me. Then came Our Girl, a BBC drama that opened new doors, followed by Outlander, which took me to Scotland and ultimately kept me there. I fell in love with the place and made it home.

Since then, the journey has taken me to places that staircase could only have whispered about. House of the Dragon. The Witcher. The Wheel of Time. Feature films like Wonka and The Beekeeper 2. And most recently, Avengers: Doomsday as Second Unit A Camera Operator.

I've been lucky enough to work on some extraordinary projects with extraordinary people, and I'm not done yet. But what excites me just as much now is passing it on: the real stuff, the stuff that takes years to learn. That's Steadimike's Workshop. Come and find me.