NARRATIVE WORK
THREE PEOPLE. ONE BRIEFCASE. ONE DECISION THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING.
BAGGAGE CLAIM
THE SYNOPSIS
The case contains either a fortune or a deadly explosive. Nobody knows which until it's too late. Trapped in a small apartment with sixty minutes on the clock, Erin, James, and Terry must decide what to do, and in doing so, reveal exactly who they really are.
THE FINAL REWRITE
A feature captured in five days leaves no margin for safety nets or traditional coverage. The story is structurally rebuilt from the inside out in the timeline, manipulating performance rhythms and stretching the silence between frames to find the psychological movie that the script could only hint at.
NARRATIVE ASSEMBLY
Structural timeline assembly and scene continuity engineering. Pacing, performance subtext, and performance choices are completely locked before a single frame is handed off to finishing.
FINISHING & COLOR SCIENCE
Sculpting the high-contrast, low-key neo-noir palette via an XML round-trip workflow. Every look is engineered to maximize dynamic range, holding clinical definition deep within near-black shadows.
PIPELINE THEATRICAL DELIVERY
Final sound design synchronization, space integration, and master print delivery. Timeline configurations and encoding exported strictly to DCP theatrical distribution specifications.
WHERE THE BLACKS HOLD SECRETS
Neo-noir lives in what the grade refuses to show. An in-depth breakdown of the custom DaVinci Resolve node architecture built to keep shadow density legible on a theatrical screen.
THE ROOM NEVER GETS BIGGER
Every cut on the timeline was engineered to close the walls in, frame by frame. Operational pacing notes from converting five days of cramped apartment footage into eighty minutes of claustrophobia.
ERIN / Camila Wolfson
JAMES / Arthur Falco
TERRY / Johann Dippenaar
RUNNER / Wilhelm Rabie
CHASER 1 / Louis Van Neikerk
CHASER 2 / Euvrard Loubser
DIRECTOR / Jean-Paul Malherbe
SCREENPLAY / Jean-Paul Malherbe & Simon Parker
CINEMATOGRAPHY / Gerrit Olivier
1ST ASSISTANT CAMERA / David Kwizera
PRODUCTION DESIGNER / Estè Kira Opperman
COSTUME DESIGNER / Tyron Mathee
SOUND MIXER / Glen van Staden
BOOM OPERATORS / Hugo Gravito / Abonga Xatyisiwe
HAIR & MAKE-UP / Helen Rudolphe SFX MAKE-UP / Estè Ueckerman / Annette van Staden CATERING / Anthea
EDITOR / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER / Euvrard Loubser COLOURIST / Skye Barrow (Priest Post) VFX ARTISTS / M. Rahman Pavel / M. Jawad Zafar SOUND DESIGN & DIALOGUE / Janco Mouton COMPOSER & FINAL MIX / Simon Malherbe
