EP43: Spinning from GP_1431 to Hollywood in a Gusheshe. Ernest Nkosi and Enos Manthata
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This week in The Doc and The Guru podcast we tell the uplifting story of a young kid from GP_1431 who is so inspired by watching Mbongeni Ngema’s 1992 movie Sarafina at the local Paragon Theatre in Katlehong that he decides then and there to become a movie director.
25 years later his first movie Thina Sobabili wins the Danny Glover Award at the Pan African Film Festival and is nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy as Best Foreign Language Film in 2015.
In 2016 with his 13-part TV series You Think You Can Spin, featuring the legendary BMW Gusheshe, transforms spinning into South Africa’s Number_1 motor sport. Car spinning has now been officially recognised by the country’s regulatory body Motorsport South Africa (MSA) and endorsed by the World of Motorsport South Africa (WOMZA) and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC).
His latest 2019 production, the feature-length documentary film An Ordinary People, gives an in-depth account of the sport of spinning and the unique subculture it has created in South Africa.
And all of this entirely self-funded.
How’s that sound for a movie script?
Too far-fetched?
It would be. Except it’s not a movie script. It’s the very real story of how two young South African entrepreneurs Ernest Nkosi and Enos Manthata are carving out their own creative space and their own legacy in the world of Advertising, Movie and TV production.
If you love Mzansi’s uniquely crafted local content, then you can’t miss this one folks.
Tune in to The Doc and The Guru free on your preferred podcast platform.
This podcast is proudly brought to you by Nfinity Media who are incubating innovative businesses in the media industry. For more info on Nfinity Media, visit www.nfinity.co.za.
25 years later his first movie Thina Sobabili wins the Danny Glover Award at the Pan African Film Festival and is nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy as Best Foreign Language Film in 2015.
In 2016 with his 13-part TV series You Think You Can Spin, featuring the legendary BMW Gusheshe, transforms spinning into South Africa’s Number_1 motor sport. Car spinning has now been officially recognised by the country’s regulatory body Motorsport South Africa (MSA) and endorsed by the World of Motorsport South Africa (WOMZA) and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC).
His latest 2019 production, the feature-length documentary film An Ordinary People, gives an in-depth account of the sport of spinning and the unique subculture it has created in South Africa.
And all of this entirely self-funded.
How’s that sound for a movie script?
Too far-fetched?
It would be. Except it’s not a movie script. It’s the very real story of how two young South African entrepreneurs Ernest Nkosi and Enos Manthata are carving out their own creative space and their own legacy in the world of Advertising, Movie and TV production.
If you love Mzansi’s uniquely crafted local content, then you can’t miss this one folks.
Tune in to The Doc and The Guru free on your preferred podcast platform.
This podcast is proudly brought to you by Nfinity Media who are incubating innovative businesses in the media industry. For more info on Nfinity Media, visit www.nfinity.co.za.
