South African Filmmaker, actress, screenwriter, and producer.

Thandi Brewer is an award winning writer, director, script editor and facilitator. She has a broad knowledge of all aspects of the Arts fields, having worked in nearly all of them since she was six months old as an actress, singer, dancer, musician, writer, producer and director.

She won the Soundscapes competition in 1995 for Best South African play for her first play Samuel's Fugue. She has written many TV series, the latest being Usindiso/Redemption!! which she produced in conjunction with Bridget Pickering. It was a regional semi regional finalist for best drama series for the International Emmy's in 2008, won 4 SAFTAs and was hugely successful playing to 4.3 million viewers a night on SABC 1.

She has written International film scripts, like Paris Le Cap, Cheap Lives, The Weatherman, 12 Dancing Princesses, Story of An African Farm, Corner Pocket and The Chemo Club. Her second play Please Hold I'm Coming ran to great critical and audience acclaim at the Civic Theatre as well as Rockatutu for the South African Ballet Theatre last year, which sequed into Music and Mayhem in 2005, Jump 4 Joy in 2006, The Heart is Round in 2007 and Gunslingers.

She is enormously honoured to have been one of the twelve South African writers selected for the Sediba writer's workshop of 2005 - run by Alby James, which lead to being a senior script editor for the SABC/Sediba workshop, which in it's turn has lead to heading up the Spark writers programme with Julie Hall for the NFVF and Sediba, and working with new writers in Kenya for MNet.. She's has her LTCL and Fellowship from Trinity College, London. She is currently Chairman of The Writer's Guild of South Africa.

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