Mandla N dominated the SAFTAs last weekend, with DiepCity named the joint biggest winner, taking home five awards, including Best Telenovela, Most Popular TV Soap Or Telenovela Award, and Best Directing, while Boxing Day was named Best Made For TV Movie.
Mandla N is a renowned South African director, producer, actor, musician and entrepreneur. In his final year of university, he opened his own production company, BlackBrain Pictures, and together with some of his classmates, they produced their first hit comedy for SABC 1, City Ses’la, as well as the spinoff Ses’ Top La. Over the years, Mandla N successfully transitioned from acting and producing comedies to directing and producing award-winning telenovelas, dramas and movies, including SAFTA winners DiepCity, Lockdown, Boxing Day, and Loving Thokoza. He also directed Meet Melusi, which recently topped the Showmax movies chart. In his masterclass, Mandla N share his experiences on both sides of the camera, what drives his passion and how he creates authentic content.
About the Showmax x Actor Spaces masterclasses
Showmax and Actor Spaces are partnering to open up the industry, with new masterclasses coming to YouTube every second Thursday from August into October 2022. Each masterclass will be followed within a week by an Instagram Live for aspiring actors to ask the featured speaker follow-up questions.
First up was 2022 SAFTA Best Actor winner Bonko Khoza, best known as Mqhele in The Wife S1 and 2:
He was followed by The Wife’s casting director, Ayanda Sithebe, on the art of auditioning:
