Local resident and former journalist looks forward to her film career
WINDSOR EAST – Witwatersrand University student and former Caxton Local Media journalist enjoyed working on her first film.
Former Randburg Sun journalist Amy Ingram always wanted to work in the film industry since her high school days.
When life didn’t work out the way she had planned, she joined Caxton Local Media and worked as a journalist.
“My experience as a journalist working for the community newspapers, Randburg Sun and mostly Roodepoort Northsider, has influenced my filmmaking and creative thought process. I’m very grateful for my time at Caxton,” she said.
The fourth year student is studying Film and Television at Witwatersrand University and recently worked on a film project Family Ties which was created in 48 hours. She worked as the head writer and one of the camera operators on the project.
“I feel lucky to have been asked to join a student team, the film crew that participated in the 48 hours film project in 2021,” she said.
According to her, it was a wild and sleepless ride to create a film in 48 hours but she was grateful that she had worked with other talented and hard-working students that made the experience unforgettable.
“This is the first film competition I’ve participated in and the first time I’ve written a script that was actually a film.”
Ingram had worked with many of the crew members on other projects as part of her studies which made her experience very pleasing. “So it was really nice to work with them outside of an assignment brief and university demands.”
While they produced the film under intense pressure and strict headlines, she said they had great team work and leadership. “The director Thobile Maseko and cinematographer Leah Maistry had also organised everything and initially put the team together.”
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