At this moment in time, couple of us are busy producing a movie by the name of "The African Nazi". The movie will have all the elements of love, drama and suspense and will be releasing in February sometime.
Little about the movie:
A young independent film and television production trio aimed at exploiting our talents as independent film-makers .
Description Bankrobbers3 consists of The Trio:
Niyaaz “the Talent" Adonis
Growing up, Niyaaz “the Talent" always found a great liking towards film and cinema. his spontaneous nature always allowed him to exploit his ability to act to the extent he would imitate and dress up as his favourite characters such as Conan, bat-man, the terminator to mention a few.
At the age of seven, he was chosen for many roles in theatre and school performances. This enabling his career as a young talented actor. At the age of sixteen, he was chosen to perform the lead character of shake-spear's Macbeth in a school production; his performance was mind blasting even so that he was labelled ' the talent' by most of his peers.
After his parents split, Niyaaz then battled with depression and obesity forcing him to put his acting career on hold. He gained a degree in B.com at the University of Western Cape in Cape Town South Africa. Once tackling and getting his life back on track, ' the talent' then got back in shape to peruse his life as an actor. He has since then been a host on a channel for top TV. He has interviewed people such as Dr Robert Rey, William Rodriguez to name but a few. He has also since then been an extra, featured extra, model, and has played lead in a few independent productions. Currently set to be the lead in bankrobbers3 next independent production called “the classroom" shooting starts mid March.
Abu-bakr "the baby maker" Hattas
‘The baby maker' as he is known under the bankrobbers3 label always had a great love for film and reality shows. Growing up he was always fascinated with films such as star wars, the god father, Scarface, showing his versatility with regards to film genres.
At university, ' the baby maker' obtained his degree in anthropology and psychology, going off the path of cinema; he always still maintained his passion for filmmaking. Even so during his time at university, he was part of many independent student productions, films such as “what I’ve become" and " the collector" both directed by independent filmmaker E.H Osman. It was however in editing where the baby maker found his true talent and passion. Turning footage into masterpieces. His style of editing shows his vast flexible nature of adapting to stylistic modern and historic cinematic presentations and his ability to combine these two forms of cinematic expressions. His vision for outlining and scene selection during editing makes him one of the greatest up and coming talents around.
He is currently one of the members of the bankrobbers3 trio. His editing skills have gained him great recognition amongst many as an up and coming talent in the film industry. Currently finishing an independent bankrobers3 production called ' the meeting' set to be released in early march.
Tawfeeq " the vision' Hendricks
One would say that as a child, tawfeeq was born with the words, action and cut in his vocabulary. Growing up in Cape Town, Western Cape, tawfeeq had a great passion for the world of television and cinema. He always had a love for music and film. At the age of seven, he was known by many of his teachers at school as the 'golden boy'. Not only because of his ability to act in school theatre but also his capability to write stories at a very young age.
It was at high school where tawfeeq truly found his calling. Apart from partaking in school theatre productions and talent shows, tawfeeq always had the passion for stories and writing. At the age of fifteen, he wrote his first feature script of ninety pages called “Elizabeth". From there his passion for film just grew more and more until he realised his true talent. Screen writing and directing. Living by the concept “I have a vision" thus nicknaming him by many of his peers as 'the vision' it was in his final year of matric that he truly stunned all his peers when he wrote a story for performance on stage at school.
He then furthered his studies at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. With a Major in arts, he graduated from university with a degree in English literature and film and media. It was also during his time at university where he wrote and directed a theatre production called " jihad' revolving around the concept of apartheid in correlation with Palestine and their struggle. A three day sold out event at the great Baxter theatre saw tawfeeq in the league of South Africa’s greatest up and coming talents.
Tawfeeq's career really took off when he was called in as part of crew for the film 'Invictus' working alongside big names such as Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon and Morgan freeman. Tawfeeq then excelled by continuing to write his own screenplays. it was at the end of 2010 where he completed his feature script ' Micky Who?' soon after, he was again called for crew to work on universal studios blockbuster film shot in south Africa, David Guggenheim's Safe house directed by Daniel Espinosa allowing tawfeeq to work alongside Hollywood’s finest such as Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. Soon after safe house, tawfeeq then worked on hit British show ' Kidnap and Ransom' alongside the legendary Trevor eve. Tawfeeq then ended off the year 2011 with a bang when he landed the crew list for universal studios " death Race Inferno" working alongside names like Danny Trejo, Tanit Phoenix, Tania Van Graan to mention a few. Currently tawfeeq is looking to excel and expand Bankrobbers3 and promote the next generation of film still standing by the term “I have a vision".
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To be continued. . .
