An uplifting short film set on the streets of Johannesburg, Street Smart (4 min, RSA, 2024) tells the story of a street kid who discovers the awesome power of a smart idea.
Created by Cape Town indie film maker Tim Greene (Boy Called Twist, Skeem, The Fury), the film is based on actual events and will be released today on YouTube:
Tim Greene is an award winning South African film maker, best known for writing and directing the feature films BOY CALLED TWIST (2004) and SKEEM (2011), and as a showrunner on numerous award–winning South African TV shows.
His latest feature film THE FURY (2022) is currently exclusive on Amazon Prime worldwide and won the SA Writer’s Guild’s prestigious RICHARD NOSWORTHY AWARD for 2023.
He is the winner of two SAFTA Golden Horn awards, for BEST DIRECTOR: TV DRAMA for HARD COPY in 2006 and for BEST SCREENPLAY for SKEEM in 2011.
SKEEM also won BEST COMEDY SCREENPLAY and BEST COMEDY at the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards in 2013, and scooped the prestigious AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival in 2011.
Based in Cape Town, he works internationally, most recently with MTV Staying Alive (London), Discovery Learning Alliance (Washington, D.C.) and with AMC International (LA).
Tim recently started to bring his unique story-telling talents to off-line editing. After years of cutting his own work, a happy collaboration with director Meg Rickards on her feature film Atlantis (eVOD / Amazon Prime / Moonlighting / Known Associates) inspired him to make the shift into editing in early 2021.
Since then he hasn’t looked back, cutting three features, a six part drama series for the US network Pureflix, and a feature-length documentary about rhino poaching.
Short form work includes title sequences for Umlilo, Rhythm City and iNumber Number as well as a music video for Jack Parow. But mainly he works in long form, mainly in drama, and mainly on Premiere Pro.
He has some proficiency in After Effects and has had some success using Unreal Engine to animate photo-realistic cinematics. He is a member of the South African Guild of Editors.
