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Mandilakhe Mzontsundu Yengo

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Husband to Bantuza and Father to Iyana and Zenala oh and Television Director at Penguin and Paw Paw Films

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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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We’re playing corporation games on #DieToring Mondays at 9pm (put the kids to sleep for this one 😅) also available to stream on the @dstvza Stream app

I had the GREATEST time on this one 💙 #YolandaStrauss

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🎬 Making TV
SKEMERGROND
@penguinfilmsofficial
@kyknetkie

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Die boardroom is die slagveld. 💰😈 VANAAND 21:00 op kykNET begin ’n splinternuwe Afrikaanse telenovela wat alles het: hartseer, begeerte, verraad en geheime wat besighede én verhoudings kan vernietig. Meyer Petersen Investments. Lyk goed. Ruik sleg. 👀🖤

#MPI #kykNET #AfrikaanseDrama #Telenovela #VanaandOm9

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We fluff and do another take.

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📽🎬 - FILM MAKING

I am truly blessed to be learning from these Legends

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Thanks for making waves 🤟🏽🌊 @news24 @city_press @tracyleestark

https://www.news24.com/citypress/trending/watch-the-skipper-of-her-own-story-how-azile-found-power-and-peace-at-sea-20250721-0362

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Ahoy maties! Teaser’s out! ⛵️Now Streaming on Disney+ 💫

Featuring @azile_arosi @spesmchunu @sizatusibusiso
Executive Producers Marjon Javadi @amandaalpertmuscat @brimcgi
Producers @myengo @annie_060 @sheenz.m
Cinematography @ross_hillier
Under water camera @arthur_neumeier
Editor @tricia_holmes
Teaser @borisjansch
Color @tomopoole @company_3
Sound @angelo.sound
Score and Mix @pressurecookerstudios @jamesmatthes @astridanna_iver @aan3s_ @keithkavayi @simonratcliffe83 @neilleachman
Titles @chrisrubinostudio
Online @7tva7
Drone @bigbird_cinematography @nickjriley @duncwalker
Production co-ordinator @zani_smuts
Production assistant @marklinden7812024
Dit @nkah.fresh
1 AC @mattmacd_789
2 AC @ash_smit
2 AC @alex_ortscheit
1 AD @myengo
2 AD @khanya______
Gaffer @bdaniels336
Unit @michaelwightman
Marine coordinator @frogsquad
Director 🙆🏽‍♀️

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June is over? Julying!

End of June is midway through the year and it always gets me nostalgic 🥹

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Forward chaps #weshootza #tv #series

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⛴️ 🌊

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For the past two decades I have been adapting to the ever changing Film, Television and Video industry while keeping a clear focus on storytelling through effective and evocative editing over a broad range of projects on every platform imaginable.

From scripted narratives to documentaries, reality TV, streaming shows, music videos, educational projects to online content and everywhere else stories are used to connect with an audience!

Very happy and proud to share a showcase of my most recent and meaningful work.

I would also like to credit the incredible creatives that have over the years trusted me to help bring their visions to vibrant life. Thank you!

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