Busisiwe Ntintili
Writing
Biography
Busisiwe Ntintili is a multiple award-winning film and television writer, director and producer. Creator and writer of the third original series for Netflix, “JIVA!” and screenwriter of the box office hit film “Happiness is a 4 Letter Word”, she has been working with the written word for more than thirty years.
Known For
JIVA! is a fun and energy-packed drama series that follows the life of the talented street dancer Ntombi, who while juggling the demands of a dead end job, family responsibility and a rocky love life realises that her dance moves could be her ticket out of her working class neighbourhood in Durban. But first, she must overcome her fears, beat her rivals and sort out the chaos that is her family.
Jiva!
Perfectionist Nandi seems to have the New South African Dream life within her grasp, black female partner in a major firm, marriage, the perfect house - but it all goes up in flames a few months before the wedding. With her friends Zaza and Princess, Nandi will have to find out what truly makes her happy and then fight to get it.