Big World Cinema was established in 1994 and is managed by Steven Markovitz. They have produced a number of award-winning fiction and documentaries. Big World has an extensive production and distribution network across Africa and has co-produced with over fifteen countries internationally. They have worked with over 120 directors from over 20 African countries.
From their site
Images from Big World Cinema’s own website.
Who works there
- Television DistributionContact About Big World Cinema was establish
- African Movie2011
- Shorts Competition)
Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.
Contact & details
How their work is rated
5 rated titles, weighted by votes
42 wins from 109 nominations across all awards
Combined US gross, 2 of 12 titles
- Mostly
- drama, documentary, romance
- Active
- 2006–2023
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 94%
- Best known for
- Rafiki
Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 9 of 12 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.
Credits12
10 films · 1 TV title
Tug of War
2024 · Film
Produced
Omen
2023 · Film
Produced
African Folktales Reimagined
2023 · TV
Produced
The Colonel's Stray Dogs
2021 · Film
Produced
Rafiki
2019 · Film
Produced
Silas
2018 · Film
Produced
aKasha
2018 · Film
Produced
Life in Progress
2015 · Film
Produced
Stories of Our Lives
2014 · Film
Produced
Beats of the Antonov
2014 · Film
Produced
- 2006
Beyond Freedom
2006 · Film
Produced
- 2004
Proteus
2004
Produced
12 titles across 21 years, averaging 0.6 a year. The last five years hold at 0.6 a year. 12 of those 21 years carry no credit on file. 12 titles between 1997 and 2026, most in 2014 (2). 3 in the last five years shown, against 4 in the five before.
Who they work with
- Hajooj Kuka2
- Hajooj Kuka2
- Drama4 of 8
- Documentary3 of 8
Names appearing on two or more of Big World Cinema’s produced titles, across the 8 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.
Works with12 companies
Companies that appear alongside Big World Cinema on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.
Other companies near Cape Town
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