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Amy Jephta

Amy Jephta

Writing

Biography

Amy Jephta hails from Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town and works variously as a filmmaker, playwright, screenwriter, director and academic.

Known For

Trackers
6.3

Three story strands are interwoven into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of South Africa, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, state security, Black Rhinos, the CIA and an international terrorist plot.

Trackers

2019
Catch Me a Killer
6.5

Follow South Africa’s first forensic and investigative psychologist, Micki Pistorius (played by Charlotte Hope), as she studies the minds of South Africa's serial killers. Catch Me A Killer is an adaptation of Micki's autobiography that details her work as the first female criminal profiler in the country, which is brought to life as the events are depicted in the series.

Catch Me a Killer

2024
Skemerdans
N/A

Skemerdans is a Cape Flats neo-noir murder mystery set at the Oasis jazz club, the center of a power struggle between two brothers, a scorned widow and an organized crime syndicate.

Skemerdans

2021
Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story
8.6

Based on true events, the film tells a story of the damaged relationship between a woman and her son, who is addicted to drug abuse. It also narrates the itenary of events that led to the murder of her son, as well as the legal process that followed afterwards.

Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story

2018
Barakat
6.0

An aging matriarch aims to bring together her fractured, dysfunctional family over Eid-al-Fitr to break the news about her new romance.

Barakat

2021
The Day We Didn't Meet
N/A

Alex and Sam reconnect after a chance encounter. They imagine a fantasy life as a married couple and abandon all their responsibilities to be together. However, reality soon comes knocking.

The Day We Didn't Meet

2021
Sonskyn Beperk
N/A

Anya du Plessis returns to Philadelphia, South Africa from New York to repair the fractious relationship with her father Marius, and to help with the struggling farm. She finds her father's crutch for dealing with her mother's passing, is an obsession with his beer brewing hobby, he believes is the answer to their financial woes. When leaving New York, Anya is also leaving behind Jacob, her boyfriend and work colleague, and the last thing she expects is to fall for a suave, charming stranger. Ruan is on a mission from his Brewing Company, to identify a new winning beer recipe with which to enter the annual craft beer competition, and comes across Marius' farm and special brew, the only thing standing in his path to craft beer glory, is the feisty daughter of the farmer.

Sonskyn Beperk

2016
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Soldaat

2017
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The daughter of a water tycoon joins forces with a township gangster to challenge the powerful system that divides their society.

Beyond Day Zero

While You Weren't Looking
2.1

Dez and Terri, a mixed-race couple married 20 years and adoptive parents, they are the trailblazing lesbians of the New South Africa. But, have these freedoms guaranteed them happiness? Asanda, their 18 year old adopted daughter, is the poster child for South Africa’s diversity but describes herself as “an experiment”, being made up as she goes along. She meets Shado, an enigmatic Tommy Boy from Khayalitsha, a township on the edge of Cape Town, and a different picture of the New South Africa emerges.

While You Weren't Looking

2015