http://www.sasfed.org/The role has, largely, involved crisis management during Covid-19: -setting up a screen sector relief fund;-fundraising;-lobbying stakeholders and government for relief for freelancers in the audio-visual sector; -proposing the structuring of such relief; -drafting submissions in respect of industry getting back to work; -making submissions in respect of restructuring a post-Covid-19 filming and broadcast environment;-drafting submissions on policy interventions .We have been building an awareness of SASFED, and the audio-visual industry’s, work and value among different audiences, promoting diversity and building consensus to strengthen industry and achieve industry-wide beneficial results. In doing the above, we have had to actively support and promote inter-sectoral alliances and activities, proactively anticipate key issues in work and identify creative and practical solutions; adapt quickly to change and be decisive and versatile in face of uncertainty.

Service Offerings:Transaction Support (involving deal-making, drafting & brokering).Entertainment Law Sessions to ensure that Creative Code played a part in the adequate knowledge transfer to our local creative industry players. My unique skill in this area is the knack to take what are perceived as complex, high-brow, legal concepts and convey them clearly – into the non-specialist language of the ordinary creative – and connect those concepts with the real problems people face. This skill is transferable and invaluable in any field.Development Legacy Programmes to show my continued commitment to the upliftment and continuous development of the less fortunate – Creative Code facilitated the development of learnerships that independent production companies, industry organisations or professional bodies could use as a means to enter into learnerships with students and the unemployed wider, and particularly marginalised community, guided by the broad principles of broad beneficiation; creating an African legacy; and the empowerment-building of sustainable skills through skills transfer programme and other initiatives.Policy Advisory Services.

Overseeing of daily operations of diverse business operations and the implementation of the strategy for the department, with a special emphasis on Human Resources, Legal, Compliance and Research, IT and Auxiliary Services and Facilities management, to enable the NFVF to efficiently fulfil its role as the champion of the audio-visual industry.

The unit drove the negotiation and acquisition of content for entertainment channels, VOD services and third-party linear channels . Responsible for ensuring that the best possible content rights were secured. It involved content acquisition( executing strategy for acquiring rights; researching content trends; attending content markets; assisting the Head of Business Affairs in the negotiation of content purchase deals, business development experience and film, television, mobile and online distribution/licensing experience); Negotiation (complex license or business development agreements) and Partnerships (developing and maintaining relationships with key suppliers and distributors and local independent producers and stakeholders).

https://www.lebomproductions.com/Project consulting (i.e. Disney’s ‘Lion King’; 2010 FIFA World Cup Opening and Closing Ceremonies; Coca Cola South Africa’s ‘Open Happiness’ summer campaign), business analysis and restructuring, company’s business operations and service delivery to meet the strategic goals and objectives of the company.

Owned by media veterans Professor Anton Harber and Irwin Manoim. The company aimed to improve a clients’ public image and communication to its stakeholders and to the general public. Clients included high-profile public and private sector institutions, such as Brand South Africa, MultiChoice, the Industrial Development Corporation and the City of JHB.

Servicing business units of CE (i.e. Sport, Education, Content Hub, Operations, Business Development and Finance), acquisition, licensing, deal-making, contract drafting and administration, including strategy and implementation on rights management matters). Participating in significant content deals, partnerships, and co-productions. Principal negotiator in the SABC/IPO/SASFED task team for Intellectual Property. Speaking, on occasion, or the SABC, enhancing its public image and reputation, and strengthening its ties with the local production industry. Once I left, I was contracted to develop an intellectual property framework for SABC television.

Project Management (legal services in commercial transactions, motion picture productions, including international co-production), Policy Involvement (maintained relationships with government policy makers and other regulatory agencies in respect of the creative industries and business) and Research (incentives which render South Africa’s creative industries and commercial climate competitive and exploration of foreign commercial, creative and media industries markets, practices and global regulatory environments).

From Litigation, to Commercial Law Department (mining deals (PetroSA), formation of business entities, deal structuring commercial drafting and analysis, matters of empowerment and those related to setting up a few of the country‘s first hedge funds (Brait, Legae) under the Financial Services Board) and Intellectual Property Department (acquiring, registration and protection of intellectual property, unlawful competition, passing off and unfair trade practices).