VAUGHAN GIOSE comes from Elsies River, a community on the Cape Flats, where he founded Rainbow Circle Films, a production company, and co-founded the Molweni Township Film Festival, a section 21 company for non-profit.

After completing several courses in video production with the CT Film School and Community Video Education Trust Vaughan started working as a documentary director, DVC & Betacam SP Cameraman for production companies and producers in Cape Town and Johannesburg. He has worked on corporate as well as broadcast projects. He edits his own films on his own Final Cut Pro Edit suite and non-linear AVID edit suites.

Over the past seven years he has produced, directed and done camerawork for a number of documentaries, the majority of which were produced for SABC. He is also an experienced trainer, having co-ordinated Community Video Education Outreach programs in the Cape Flats townships.

Several of Vaughan’s films have been selected to participate in local and international film festivals, including the prestigious Scandinavian Film Festival – the Goteborg Film Festival, where he represented a series of films from emerging SA filmmakers, and the SACOD Maputu Film Forum – in October 1999.

Vaughan produced, directed and shot a series of 12 x 5 min short documentaries for SABC religious magazine program, HEART & SOUL – a multi-faith program. Vaughan has just completed directing, shooting and editing a second FCR Training Video on Integrated Development Planning. Giose has an ongoing relationship with the Robben Island Museum, where he is called on to be a cameraperson and director.

Vaughan brokered a deal with Film i VAST, a Swedish Film Investment Company, on behalf of the Molweni Township Film Collective to bring video production and post-production equipment back to SA to empower local black filmmakers. This facility was launched at Sithengi 2001.

Vaughan was invited back to Sweden in 2001 where he was invited to document the Gothenburg Film Festival. Vaughan is currently in post-production on a documentary film exploring the role film festivals play in the SA and international film industries, using the Molweni Township Film Festival and the Gothenburg Film Festival as two of his primary case studies.

Vaughan is was the Executive Producer, Editor as well as one of 8 filmmakers who made the films. Vaughan wrote, directed, filmed and edited his two films Zion Youth Crew and The Yu Chi Chan Club, which was screened on 4 May 2004 at the Africa Filmfestuval in Belguim along with Eugene Paramoer’s Defening Echoes which Vaughan also Filmed and Edited.

Vaughan looks forward to a continuing and growing relationship with the SA film industry in producing groundbreaking documentaries.

STUDENT MEDIA (1989 – 93),
As a UCT student Martina was very involved in a number of student organisations, including SASPU, the SA Student’s Press Union, where she served as National Training Officer. At UCT she was the Editor of VARSITY NEWSPAPER, the official student’s newspaper of UCT. She worked as a print media trainer both in the student and community media sector.

COMMUNITY MEDIA (1993 – 98)
Martina worked as a print media trainer in rural communities in the Western Cape, after this she organised the first Community Media Conference in 1993, and soon after joined the Community Video Education Trust as Project Director, Trainer and Producer. She was with CVET for 5 years (94 – 98) and was responsible for training and developing professional relationships with the students and graduates of the CVET training programme.

Martina served two years as a founding member and on the management committee of Bush Radio, Cape Town’s first community radio station. 1994 - 1995

Martina was honored to be short-listed by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications, for a position on the board of the Independent Broadcast Authority (IBA) in March 1998.

JOURNALIST (1998 – 2000)
Martina has an extensive portfolio of published work as a freelance journalist and graphic designer. She has written on a freelance basis for the Sunday Independent’s Reconstruct – a newspaper that looks at transformation and development issues in South Africa including True Love magazine.

BROADCAST / EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER (1997 – present)
Her first television educational documentary series was NEW ERA – NEW RIGHTS, a 5 part Educational Documentary series in which she produced with 5 first time black directors from the Cape Flats Townships. The series was met with acclaim and commended by SABC Education. She has since then worked with a broad selection of emerging filmmakers and always looks forward to opportunities to work with new talent. She is a skilled producer, production manager, director and researcher for broadcast and corporate video productions.
Martina has also directed magazine inserts for Re a Bua, an educational talk show on SABC 2. Martina has produced several educational documentary videos for the Foundation for Contemporary Research, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and the Cape Town City Council.