About

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Place of birth:
Capetown, South Africa
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Petrus van Staden

Overview

Petrus van Staden is a South African filmmaker and producer based between New York City and South Africa.

In 2019 he co-founded Vanishing Elephant with Tebogo Malebogo driven by a desire to find a way to tell meaningful stories. Their shorts have screened at Locarno, SXSW, JCC, New Directors/New Films, and New York Film Festival and have won multiple awards, being distributed to spaces such as Mubi, Topic, Canal + Poland and WatchArgo. He has worked between South Africa, Tanzania and the USA - producing independent work as well as an episode for Netflix's African Folktales Reimagined Anthology series. He is passionate about diversity, collaboration, finding ways to tell and uplift marginalized stories, and exploring how to tell those stories authentically and just. Apart from the selections mentioned above, he has been part of productions selected for Sundance, IFFR, Oberhausen, and Durban - bringing professionalism and quality storytelling to everything he involves himself with.

Known for

Directing
2021 Let's Do This Again Sometime Directing Director 59
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Writing
2021 Let's Do This Again Sometime Writing Writer 59
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2020 Heaven Reaches Down to Earth Writing Story 59
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Production
2020 Heaven Reaches Down to Earth Production Executive Producer 59
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2020 Heaven Reaches Down to Earth Production Producer 59
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2019 Mthunzi Production Executive Producer 59
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When the River Split Open Production Producer N/A
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We Become a Field of Flowers Production Producer N/A
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Editing
2020 Heaven Reaches Down to Earth Editing Editor 59
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2019 Mthunzi Editing Editor 59
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The Town Editing Editor N/A
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