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Alex Audan Daniels

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The amazing crew of Liefde Is Rooi! We couldn’t have done it without our hardworking and talented crew.

📸: @skatryk_productions96

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“The Gblends Obsession is real”

Inspired by:

Obsession

@Inde Navarrette

#obsession #obsessionmovie #nodontdothat #currybarker indenavarrette

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TRAILER DROPS TODAY @ 17H00 🥳

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A transformative time across canyons, rivers, forests, mountains and waterfalls.

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by His grace only.

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A few faces from behind the scenes of ‘n Poppy op die Heuwel, courtesy of @palesaraba._.

One month until premiere day!

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Paarl Filmmaker, Alex Daniels, Brings “Liefde is Rooi” to the Big Screen as Director of Photography

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Some stories refuse to stay on the stage.

After making its debut at the @woordfees , Liefde is Rooi now finds its way to the big screen.

Where every choice leaves a mark, and not everything is as it seems.

This Heritage Month, a new chapter begins.

Liefde is Rooi — coming to cinemas this Heritage Month. ❤️🎬

#LiefdeIsRooi #ComingSoon #HeritageMonth #SouthAfricanFilm #Cinema

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“The eyes chico they never lie “ 🎞️

Some expired film shots and last frame, mi amigo 😹🤘🏾

🎞️ fujifilm 400 expired 2018
🧪 @capefilmsupply
📷 Pantex k1000

#expiredfilmclub #fujifilm #capefilmsupply #filmphotography #stsfilms

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I can’t believe it’s done 😭❤️🥺 Die was een lekker en challenging journey. Die stress, vroeg oggende en beplanning was n lekker reminder van die passie binne in my en hoekom Ek stories so Baie love. Baie dankie Here dat Ek my eie drome waar maak en giving me this fire that can get through anything. @megg_nificent x @josh_vraagom

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@almarmuller se oog agter die skerms .

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There’s a particular electricity on a film set. It’s 4 AM, your third coffee, watching the sky bruise from black to violet while the grip team mutters about the dew. Your body aches in places you didn’t know existed. And yet.

The friendship sneaks up on you. Between the 14th take and the 3 AM wrap, these people become your people. The DP who showed you the cable trick without making you feel small. The actor who broke character to mouth “we got this” when everything was falling apart. You become a tribe of exhaustion. You speak in shorthand. You finish each other’s sentences about lighting setups and where the hell the gaffer tape went.

The hours are brutal and beautiful in their brutality. Twelve becomes fourteen becomes sixteen, and you stop counting. Time bends weird on set, a single minute stretches forever waiting for clouds, an entire afternoon vanishes lost in the frame. You learn to sleep standing up. You learn that a granola bar and a kind word carry you through. You learn your body is capable of far more than you believed.

But the fulfilment… that’s what keeps you coming back.

There’s a moment, different every time, when you look through the monitor and see it. The light falls exactly right. The performance cracks open something true. And you remember all the exhaustion, all the 2 AM problem-solving when the location fell through… it was for this. You took something that existed only in imagination and made it real. Gave it weight and color and breath.

Even when it falls flat, you were there. You tried. You showed up when it would have been easier not to. That stubborn, sleep-deprived, caffeine-fueled devotion to making something that matters… is its own kind of art.

When it’s over, when the trucks are packed and the set is just an empty space, you feel that particular ache of missing something before it’s gone. You’ll probably never work with this exact group of humans this way again. But somewhere, in some dark theater or on some small screen, what you made together will move someone. Will make them feel less alone.

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