Nosipho Dumisa

Nosipho Dumisa (born 1988) is a South African writer, director and producer. She co-founded the production company Gambit Films. She wrote and directed her first feature film, the crime thriller Nommer 37, first as a short in 2014 followed by a feature version in 2018.She created the Netflix series Blood & Water (2020). She previously worked as a producer on the Afrikaans soap opera Suidooster. Quotes In some way or the other a lot of us have suffered trauma and I think when we conceived Blood & Water, the statistic was something like "every five hours a child goes missing in South Africa." That is an insane statistic. And that tells you how many people have had to deal with something like this. So I think generally the world and South Africans are ready to be able to experience a new African narrative. We haven't had many young adult series being told with such a diverse cast. Especially, where people of colour are living in a prestigious world. I think we haven't had that many. So I think people definitely found that exciting. That was at least something that made people think, "I want to watch it." And then I think once you begin to watch it the story itself is a story that resonates with a lot of people I think it's always story-specific. With Blood & Water being a young adult series, it was such a great opportunity to be able to know that I need to find new faces to cast. That's the nature of the story in that it requires young people. We were intentional about wanting to do that while also balancing them up with veterans who could support them and help grow their skills. And listen, they didn't really need a lot of help if I'm being honest. These guys knew what they were doing. Some had done one or two projects before, but for Khosi Ngema who plays Fikile Bhele, this was her first project ever. She did an astounding job. External links Category: Living people