Salt Rock filmmaker creates short film series

After 16 years in Cape Town, Damon Hyland and his family moved back to Salt Rock, the town where Hyland grew up.

You would think a lot would change in 16 years, but Hyland was blown away by the people that have remained in this seaside town.

“After travelling extensively I came home and realised what a privilege it was to have grown up here,” said Hyland.

“When I returned to KZN I was really inspired by the people who live here and in particular those that have had to create opportunity for themselves,” he said.

Hyland said that most of the news you hear and see today is negative and that he wanted to tell a few positive stories.

“I think people would like to watch something that is real and honest, a video that most people can relate to,” he said.

The first video in the series is called “I grew up around here” and features Salt Rock lifeguard Sipho Sokhulu.

Hyland said he does not have a specific number of videos that he will include in the series, but will go on as he finds more and more people to focus on.

He recently completed a series called 21 Icons as the director of photography. It is a series of video’s featuring South Africa’s most iconic men and women.

He is also a freelance cinematographer and in his spare time he photographs fine art images documenting South Africa’s people and landscapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD1pWGKcGo4&feature=youtu.be