RARE BLOOD
Director: BRETT HALLIDAY
Screenwriter: BRETT HALLIDAY AND GILLIAN O'DONOGHUE
Genre: THRILLER
This fast paced, dramatic thriller is set on a remote farm in the KZN Midlands. A family that once dreamed of an idyllic country existence find themselves submerged in a dystopian nightmare. Keira (Annie Robinson) and her young daughter, Emma (Ella Grealy), struggle to survive a devious cat and mouse game played out by the deranged Panos (Brendan Grealy) and his ruthless sister, Olga (Fiona Ramsay). With prevailing menace and a dysfunctional family agenda, the victims appear to have the odds stacked against them.
RARE BLOOD features a strong cast of South African actors. In order of appearance: Brendan Grealy, Annie Robinson, Mark Mulder, Fiona Ramsay, Graham Clarke, Janna Ramos-Violante, Ashley Dowds, Emily Stockil Smith, Gary McKenzie, Ella Grealy, Hlengewe Zondi, Sizwe Mzizi, Kim Goodwin, and Ernest Mzizi
Director: Brett Halliday DoP lighting: Barry Downard Production manager: Wendy Moulton Production Design: Gillian O'Donoghue Production and post production: Neil Campbell DoP Cinematographer: Devin Carter 2nd Camera and first AD: Louis Bolton Sound: Marciano Rebelo Monjane and Darren Jaynarayan Offline editor and Data Wrangler: Richard Hambloch Script supervisor: Wendy Moulton Make up: Kim Powell Props master: Peter May Catering: Wendy Moulton Catering assistant: Hlengwe Zondi Gaffer's best boy and runner: Sizwe Mzizi
THE MAN IN THE MIRROR
Director: BRETT HALLIDAY
Screenwriter: BRETT HALLIDAY
Genre: PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA
Status: IN DEVELOPMENT
Set in Zululand South Africa three Zulu men must re-awaken sleeping demons when Zondi, now a successful Johannesburg businessman in Johannesburg, returns to his childhood home in rural Zululand. Under adversity they are compelled to “look in the mirror” and make life changing choices. Choices that set off a chain of events with irreversible consequences.
Production Company: Dreamlands Film & Media.
Creative team: Writer/Director: Brett Halliday. Producers: David Wurawa, Gillian T O'Donoghue, Brett Halliday. Director of Photography and Editor Devin Carter. Production Design and 2nd Unit Director Gillian T O'Donoghue. Art Direction, Still Photography Barry Downard. Score & Sound Design Tyler Halliday. Line Producer Wendy Moulton.
Cast: David Wurawa, Mbulelo Grootboom, Frank Malaba, Mark Mulder, Graham Clarke, Brendan Grealy, Ashley Dowds, Trish Downing, Annie Robinson, Sizwe Mzizi, Victoria Zondi.
THE WAKE
Director: BRETT HALLIDAY
Screenwriter: BRETT HALLIDAY
Genre: Drama
Human conflict at it's most disturbing, human emotion at it's most noble. The WAKE is set in 1970’s Dublin where Danny is holding his beloved wife of 30 years hostage in his apartment...but she's dead. A powerful drama. The Wake is in development with English Producer Toby Richards & Irish Producer John Phelan, Bootstrap Fims. The view to starting principal photography early in 2021.
DARK PORTAL
Director: BRETT HALLIDAY
Screenwriter: BRETT HALLIDAY
Genre: GOTHIC HORROR
Seven young people are invited to a murder Mystery weekend at a remote castle on the coast, where the winner walks away with a bundle of cash. They are obliged to hand in their cell phones, tablets and lap tops as, in the interest of fairness, help from the outside is forbidden. Then things start to go horribly wrong when their hostess change the game plan without warning, and macabre incident after macabre incident occurs.
