Red Zone Paramedics
Red Zone Paramedics is a documentary film about an ambulance crew working the night shift on New Years Eve in Mitchells Plain, an area of Cape Town with high levels of gang related violence. Long granular shots winding through darks streets while navigating the visceral complexities of delivering healthcare in a city of complex contradictions – this is a film about the everyday experiences of life on the road.
2019
Felicia's Journey
A film about a patient who travels 30 hours for a 15 minute consultation at Groote Schuur Hospital for a doctors appointment.
150 000 people make this journey using the HealthNet service every year. Without this service they would not be able to access the healthcare they need. But, bringing healthcare closer to where people live is the ultimate goal.
This film was used as an advocacy piece in the Department of Health and Wellness.
Unjust City
Against the backdrop of the 2019 military intervention, 3 interwoven stories take you on a journey thru Cape Town and shine a light on complexities at the intersection of health, inequality & violence. This film was made before the Covid-19 pandemic illustrates how the coronavirus is a 'crisis on a crisis'. Despite this, essential workers from all parts of the health system continue to provide care under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.
Through three interwoven stories of an ambulance crew, a community activist and a woman testifying against a prominent gang leader, the film shines a light on the complex issues at the intersection of inequality, violence and the health system. .
Lopende Ambulanse
Set in the remote Karoo town of Merweville, this poetic documentary follows die lopende ambulanse (the walking ambulance), a group of local volunteers trained and supported by a paramedic who respond to emergencies when formal healthcare services cannot reach people in time. Through their journeys across the town, the film reveals how access to care is shaped not only by distance, but by the enduring legacies of inequality and exclusion. At once intimate and political, it traces the quiet acts of care that sustain communities at the edges of the healthcare system. Rather than offering easy answers, the film invites viewers to hold two truths at once: the extraordinary dedication of local first responders and the profound challenges of rural healthcare. In telling their stories, it also asks what health systems can learn from the people who bridge gaps in care every day, and how listening to those on the frontline might help reshape the system itself.
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