Avril Beukes

Avril Beukes' career spans decades. She has edited more than 25 feature films, the most recent being "Respect" starring Jennifer Hudson and directed by Liesl Tommy. "Little One", which she edited in 2012, was selected as the South African Foreign Language entry to the 2013 Academy Awards. Other highlights include "Yesterday" which was nominated for the 2005 Foreign Film Academy Award and "Red Dust" starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor (for which she received the inaugural Golden Horn Award for Feature Film Editing in 2006). South Africa's 1997 Oscar entry "Paljas" was co-edited by Avril. Whilst still in her native South Africa, she won numerous other awards for her editing work in feature films and television. She edited the debut feature films of directors Tom Hooper and Gavin Hood and worked extensively with Darrell James Roodt. In the US, she has edited feature films, scripted TV and feature documentary films, working with directors such as Julie Dash, Tina Mabry, Numa Perrier, Kiel Scott and Kasi Lemmons. Avril's scripted TV work includes 4 seasons of Ava DuVernay's OWN series "Queen Sugar" and Season 1 of Tarell McCraney's "David Makes Man", the pilot episode of "The Thing About Pam", 2 episodes of "The Big Cigar" and 3 episodes of Bosch Legacy Season 3.

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Respect

The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

6.8

Year:

2021

Irene & Marie

Olympia Dukakis and Rose Gregorio play Greek-American women in their 70s who create stories to avoid the realities of growing older.

0.0

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2015

And Then There Was You

Natalie and Joshua appear to be the picture-perfect couple, but looks can be deceiving. When Natalie discovers her husband has led a secret life, she is forced to deal with losing everything she loves. Newly divorced and soured on relationships, Natalie is picking up the pieces of her shattered world. In the process of healing, she meets a new man who challenges the boundaries of her trust and her ability to fall in love again.

6.1

Year:

2013

Dystopia

Dystopia is a post apocalyptic thriller about the journey of a man and a young girl (Rick and Christine) who struggle to survive in a city of darkness and desolation. Imagine a world subjugated by global warming, headaches, violence, kidnappings, and homelessness. When a mysterious disaster strikes, the world as we know it turns upside down, creating a futuristic society where rules are non-existent. Throughout the barren landscapes of a lost city, our characters must find the inner strength and courage to confront the dangers of this terrifying world. Rick and Christine fight to stay alive, and through this process, discover riveting truths about themselves and the destructive disaster that has nearly destroyed their lives.

0.0

Year:

2013

Stealing Time

South African Movie

0.0

Year:

2013

Fanie Fourie's Lobola

After Fanie takes Dinky, a strong Zulu woman, to his Afrikaans family wedding, the two find an unexpectedly fun cross-cultural romance. But in order to marry Dinky, Fanie must negotiate to pay Lobola (a South African dowry).

5.0

Year:

2013

Amy Winehouse: Fallen Star

A biography on the life of Amy Winehouse.

3.8

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2012

Ties That Bind

Adobea, Buki and Theresa are three women from different walks of life bound together by a similar pain; the loss of a child. In a destined meeting in a small village in Kroboland, the women journey together to redemption, love, life and forgiveness as they renovate a dilapidated clinic for the villagers.

0.0

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2011

Take Me Home

In New York City, Thom is broke and jobless, illegally working as a taxi driver. Claire is a successful business-woman, but personally she's in shambles - then comes the phone call that her estranged father is in the hospital. Not knowing what to do, Claire hops in Thom's cab and orders him to just drive and so he does. They find themselves in Pennsylvania and Claire makes the rash decision to drive across the country to California. On the road, there are many detours as the obstacles and secrets force them to learn about themselves and each other.

6.5

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2011

Not Since You

A romantic drama about a tight-knit group of college friends who graduated from NYU the year of 9/11 and reunite years later for a weekend wedding in Georgia. Unresolved conflicts and love affairs spark again.

5.3

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2009

Pastor Brown

When her father unexpectedly falls terminally ill, exotic dancer Jessica "Jesse" Brown returns home for the first time in more than a decade. Her father's dying wish - that she take over as head of Mount Olive Baptist Church - turns her life and her family's life upside down.

6.0

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2009

Reach for Me

Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not granted when a young, vibrant and ironically full of life Kevin becomes Alvin's hospice roommate. Through this "odd couple" relationship, Alvin learns that its not the minutes in our life, its the moments in your life that matter.

2.0

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2008

Prey

An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.

5.8

Year:

2007

Moondance Alexander

Curiously named teen Moondance Alexander lives with her eccentric mother, and is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers. Although Moondance returns the horse to his rightful owner, the gruff and mysterious Dante Longpre, she is convinced that Checkers is a champion jumper in disguise and is determined to help him realize his full potential.

5.9

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2007

Yesterday

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

7.6

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2004

Yesterday

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

7.6

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2004

Dracula 3000

In the year 3000, the deep space salvage ship Mother III locates the vanished starship Demeter in the Carpathian System. Captain Abraham Van Helsing and his crew composed of the blonde assistant Aurora Ash; the crippled navigator Arthur "The Professor" Holmwood, who believes that he is a genius; the strong and dumb Humvee; the intern Mina Murry; and the drug addicted 187, decide to claim the possession of Demeter. While exploring the spacecraft, they see a tape of fifty years ago of Captain Varna telling that he was locked in his cabin since his crew was acting weird after getting a cargo of coffins in Transylvania station. When 187 decides to search in the coffins for some possible hidden dope, he cuts his hand and his blood awakes Count Orlock, a.k.a. Count Dracula. When Aurora discloses who Dracula is, the survivors try to find a way to destroy the vampire.

2.8

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2004

Red Dust

Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.

5.8

Year:

2004

Sumuru

Based on Sax Rohmer's cult novels "Sumuru", the futuristic fantasy take you to an Earth colony in the far future in which woman rule and men are used to propagate the race and work in the mines..

5.3

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2003

The Long Run

A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but when he's fired to make way for a smooth, corporate type, he's at loose ends. Then he sees Christine, a Namibian immigrant who runs to forget her troubles. He offers to coach her and soon she's living at his house, following his diet and training regimen. But his single-mindedness gets to her: she wants a job and a place of her own. Plus, the man who replaced Barry likes her and wants her away from Barry. Can runner and coach (woman and man, African and European) sort out their complex relationship before the race? Written by

6.3

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2001

Second Skin

A man opens a small-town bookstore in order to escape his connections to a mobster, but is reluctantly drawn back to his dark past by a mysterious woman.

4.5

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2000

The Father

During the Derg Period in Ethiopia, artist Alazar provides safety for his politically involved friend Jonas. There is a heavy personal price for Alazar and his wife, Rahel, to pay for his action. Alazar ends up in prison, but is eventually released. This film examines his life and the sudden reasons that lead up to his death.

0.0

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2000

A Reasonable Man

With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.

4.5

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1999

The Storekeeper

An elderly man owns a small, isolated general store, somewhere in rural South Africa. After suffering a series of burglaries, which culminate in the murder of a night-watchman, the Storekeeper finally takes the law into his own hands - with tragic consequences.

5.0

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1998

Paljas

Follows the deterioration of an Afrikaner family isolated and shunned in the small community of Toorwater. Nothing seems to happen. Then a circus train loses its way and comes to rest in Toorwater, and a mysterious clown brings fresh magic to the stagnating family, but he also poses a threat to the rest of the community.

7.2

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1998

Agter elke man

A concluding movie to the Afrikaans television series that ran for two seasons, this movie focuses mainly on Bruce Beyers after he is released from jail (2 years after the second season ended). Many main characters from the TV series did not return for the movie. The movie also features Steve Hofmeyer's song, "Agter Elke Man", which he wrote for the movie.

0.0

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1990

Fiela's Child

The acclaimed drama based on Dalene Matthee´s award-winning novel. "Fiela se Kind" (Fiela's Child) is the story of a white foundling boy that is raised by a brown family. But the childs life changes irrevocably when white census officials discover him living across the established borders of society, and he is removed from his foster parents. "This is the moving story about a close family being torn apart by the social convictions of the day. It is the story of a mother´s enduring love and hope to see her taken son again. Fiela is a down to earth woman farmer who does not let anyone step on her. She raised a white castaway child, Benjamin, and teaches him the simple things in life."

8.0

Year:

1988