CityVarsity: Academic Staff

CAPE TOWN
Acting Department
	Van Rensburg, Nic (Head Of Department - Acting Department) Campus: Cape Town Nic is a specialist in both Drama and Media Studies, he has vast practical experience in the fields of lecturing, drama direction and Film & TV producing, film, radio, TV news reading, TV and radio anchor work and Film and TV production, with the following awards on the shelf: South African Rapport Oscar Award – Best Actor, Star Tonight Award – Best Director, International Energy Award – Best Film (Switzerland-Lausanne), and a nomination for the Vita Awards: Best Author, Drama Script. His qualifications include BA (Honours) Drama – University of Pretoria, South Africa, National Higher Diploma in Video and Film Production (Cum Laude), Film School, Pretoria Technikon, South Africa, RSA. Professional Radio Presenters’ Course, SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Professional Sound Engineer Course, SABC – Qualified Assessor – Unit Standard No. 115753 His professional experience in the academic field stretches over many moons, - 2011: Head of Department – Acting for Camera, CityVarsity. 2010: Producing lecturer, CityVarsity, 2008 – 2009: Head of The Oakfields College’s Film School. 2007, lecturer in Film Direction, Producing, Film Art, and the Art of Film Analysis at the Motion Picture Academy, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria. As a Producer/Director in live theatre some of his productions include: “The return of a soldier” (multimedia, State Theatre production). “The marriage proposal” – Chekov (Civic Theatre) and “Die Haasvanger” (multimedia, Nico Malan Theatre, Cape Town) He also participated in several TV productions as an actor: Valley of the Vines, Harmony, Geknelde Land, The Queen and the Rebels, Koöperasie Stories and Danie Theron.
	Johnston, Shirley (Senior Lecturer - Acting Department) Campus: Cape Town Shirley has been in show business longer than most people have been alive. She studied at UCT about five hundred years ago and spent the first half of her career on stage, screen and radio. Old people might remember her in some ancient plays and movies (Shadowlands, Cry, the Beloved Country, Heel Against the Head, Dancing at Lughnasa and about 100 more forgotten titles). During her theatrical career, sadly, she was best known for being Alex Jay’s newsreader on Radio Five. After about a quarter century she began writing and directing for television (Isidingo, Backstage, Madam and Eve, League of Glory, Montana, Shooting Stars) and lecturing/teaching in between. She is constantly exhausted. She has received three Best Actress Awards, three Scriptwriting Awards and seven Best Actress nominations. She does not like being a nominee and hopes never to attend another awards ceremony where she pretends she’s not hoping she’ll win, and then pretends she’s really glad for the jerk who nabbed the big money prize. She loves her students and loves teaching Acting for Camera at CityVarsity.
	Muftic, Sanjin (Lecturer - Acting Department) Campus: Cape Town Sanjin was born in Bosnia, grew up in Ethiopia and travelled the world before arriving in Cape Town. He completed his undergrad in Drama and Computer Science in Quebec, Canada. He came to South Africa seeking a more adventure than the life a Web-Designer could offer. Enrolling at the University Cape Town to study Drama, he completed his Masters in 2006 with distinction. Since then he has directed more than several student productions, professional shows, and cabarets as well as doing videography design for various theatres around the country. His first solo project was the self- written, directed, and multimedia-designed work, The Life and Work of Petrovic Petar, which has been performed at the Grahamstown, Out the Box, and Musho festivals. Following that he directed the multimedia children’s show Under the Stars, Above the Tree which travelled to Rwanda. In recent works he has collaborated with Godfrey Johnson, MAGNET theatre, FTH:K and LaRosa Spanish Dance Company. He was awarded the GIPCA fellowship for 2011, and is working on his interdisciplinary project SAMPLE, when not watching cricket on TV.
Animation Department
	Burr, Rosalind (Head Of Department - Animation Department) Campus: Cape Town Rosalind started her education in Fine Art (drawing, advanced anatomy study, painting and sculpture) and Theatre (acting and design), which lead into an Honours Degree in Animation (traditional 2D drawn and 3D stop frame/mixed media). And finally an Advanced Diploma in Character Animation from Central St Martin’s London (advanced Maya animation) in which she gained a distinction. She believes a background in acting gives one an edge in character animation, story creation and ultimately cinematography. Maya is her preferred animation tool. Rosalind started her working career in the UK in children’s television production in 2D and mixed media animation and advertising. She has experience in managing pre-production, production and liaising with partners abroad in India, Japan, and Hungary. Rosalind has lived and worked in the London, Hamburg and Tokyo but now considers SA her new home. Before relocating to SA she worked on a number of block buster feature films and for SONY PlayStation as a 3D animator and motion capture facilitator on a number of high profile projects. Rosalind has been teaching in SA for 5 years, most recently at the University of Stellenbosch and the Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography. On a lighter note Rosalind loves dachshunds, ice-cream and maintaining a naughty secretary persona -smart suit with frilly knickers.
	Bezuidenhout, Pierre (Lecturer - Animation Department) Campus: Cape Town Pierre is an avid technical artist, since birth, and now, beyond. With his B-Tech behind him, he jumped straight into the advertising industry where he tread water like a pro (read “duck”). Now, with multiple broadcast ads behind his name, and countless hours of R&D, he dabbles in web- and game development in his down-time. And still, through it all, he manages to nurture his complicated relationship with the world of animation, and his tool of choice (read “mistress”) Maya. Long may they prosper in their unique relationship.
	de Kock, Malan (Lecturer - Animation Department) Campus: Cape Town Born with a pencil in hand and falling in love with the animation process at age 16, Malan has contributed to the worlds of animation and illustration in many ways. Recently finishing international projects for Disney Europe and Cookie Jar, among others, he has come to teach traditional animation fresh out of the industry. Many of his works are in circulation on national and international networks and festivals.
	Howroyd, Malcolm (Lecturer - Animation Department) Campus: Cape Town Malcolm studied Graphic Design at CPUT. After finishing his studies he worked as an Illustrator for a small design agency before heading over to the U.K. Upon his return he enrolled at CityVarsity to study animation. He completed his Advanced Diploma in Animation in 2009 finishing at the top of his class. Malcolm joined the CityVarsity academic staff in 2010 where he teaches Life Drawing, Story Boarding, Layout, Animation History and Traditional Drawn Animation. He is also freelance animator and illustrator within the industry. Besides animation Malcolm is a passionate cricket nerd.
Art Department
	Visagie, Hansie (Head Of Department - Art Department) Campus: Cape Town Hansie Visagie received his BA Honours Degree in Information Design from the University of Pretoria in 1981. He was appointed Head of CityVarsity’s Art Department in 2004 after spending 30 years as freelance artist and Art Director in Television, Film, Theatre, and Advertising. Hansie was a part-time Lecturer at the University of Pretoria for 20 Years as well as Pretoria Technikon. He was responsible for the designing and manufacturing of numerous sets, props, costumes, make-ups and masks, for major productions for the SABC, M-Net, Rand Afrikaans University, The State Theatre, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Artscape etc. and has travelled extensively to Europe and the USA with The Little Marionette Company for which he served as Artistic Director for 30 years. He has received national and international acclaim for his involvement with puppetry and the arts. Hansie is an ardent designer who enjoys drawing, painting, sculpting, casting, performance arts, as well as constructing and manipulating puppets.
	Laubscher, Alletta (Lecturer - Art Department) Campus: Cape Town Aletta Laubscher completed her Certificate in Motion Picture Make-Up and Diploma in Motion Picture Production Design at CityVarsity in Cape Town. Her passion for creative arts stems from her childhood and she has always had a keen interest in design, drawing, sculpture, painting, make-up, prosthetics, casting, mold making and props fabrication. Aletta is an extremely talented person who has always produced artworks of a very high aesthetic standard. She has worked in the Art Department on numerous film and television productions.
	Roets, Jo (Senior Lecturer - Art Department) Campus: Cape Town Jo is a proud product of the CityVarsity Art Department. After her studies she started working in the film industry until CityVarsity invited her to join the lecturing team in the Art Department. She stayed with CityVarsity for two years after which she went back to work in the film industry furthering her experience and skills. While away from CityVarsity Jo was head-hunted to work on numerous sets (for stage, film and television) both international and local in all her areas of expertise. Now she is back to lecture in the Art Department and excited to pass on the extended knowledge. She is passionate about the different mediums of art and strives to impart this to the students she teaches. Her knowledge of not only technique but also of products, in each of the subjects she lectures, serves as a great advantage to the students. It gives her immense satisfaction to see how the Art Department students develop into great artists acquiring the skills and knowledge they need out there whether it be in the fields of make-up, special effects, props fabrication, prosthetics, set dressing, sculpting or any other in the broad spectrum of the Art Department.
Film Department
	Solker, Riaz (Head Of Department - Film Department) Campus: Cape Town Riaz Solker (BSc Hons; HDE) has vast experience in both film and video editing. He has a Higher Diploma in Education, and has taught at UCT, AFDA, Cape Tech, high schools, as well as internationally in the UK. His knowledge ranges across all aspects of filmmaking, both behind and in front of the camera. As an actor Riaz has appeared in local films, TV dramas, sitcoms, and commercials, and as a crew member has worked behind the camera on numerous local and international features and commercials. Back in the day when there were no courses one could take to study filmmaking in South Africa, Riaz studied and earned degrees in Zoology and Applied Anatomy at UCT. But he has had a lifelong passion for motion pictures. Riaz firmly believes that the first step in making movies believable is to create convincing characters and to fulfil the audience’s expectations of the genre the film is placed in. “CityVarsity Film students are given total creative freedom,” he says “yes, they are obliged to pitch their ideas to their lecturers, who will make suggestions and recommendations, but their vision is theirs to realize.”
	Flockton, Danielle (Lecturer - Film Department) Campus: Cape Town Dani has been in film and production her whole life – working on film sets in varying capacities from the age of 17. After completing a Bachelor Degree in Anthropology and Drama, Dani spent a year in Spain and Europe dancing, teaching and working in film. She returned to Cape Town to study Producing at AFDA after which she worked in SA Feature Films as a production manager. Dani then travelled to New Zealand and Australia for two years, teaching English, kayaking… picking fruit… living out of a camper van… Back in SA Dani joined CityVarsity in the Film Department and continues to make films, teach dance, lecture producing and walk her dogs.
	Honeyman, Mike (Supervisor/ Junior Lecturer - Film Department) Campus: Cape Town After a few years travelling and working Mike studied at CityVarsity majoring in Camerawork and Lighting. His passion for cinematography earned him a Student Loerie award for the Corenza C ad “The Threat”. During his third year Mike discovered an interest in teaching his craft to younger students as a Camerawork resident. Following his graduation from CityVarsity, he spent a year working and then joined the staff at Kloof Street campus taking over as Gearhouse Supervisor and later joining the lecturing ranks as an Apprentice Lecturer in Camerawork and Lighting.
	Lombaert, Evert (Senior Lecturer - Film Department) Campus: Cape Town After having studied TV-Journalism at Rhodes University, Evert studied Camerawork and Lighting at CityVarsity. Besides being our national PR manager, he also lectures film analysis, setiquette and TV-journalism. In his capacity as GQ Magazine’s Film Editor, he has interviewed numerous film personalities including Sean Bean and Morgan Freeman. Apart from his camerawork on award-winning short films ‘Portrait of a Dark Soul’, ‘Considerately Killing Me’ and ‘Seethe’, he’s also shot and directed numerous shorts, including ‘No Pain, No Gain’, ‘Nurses’, ‘Bride to Be’ and ‘Newborn’. In 2010, he wrote ‘The World’s A Stage’, a crime novel, which he is currently editing and re-working into a screenplay.
	Schmidt, Stephen (Senior Lecturer - Film Department) Campus: Cape Town Stephen Schmidt was born and raised in South Africa. Between 1984 and 1990 he directed and produced documentary and educational films for the Democratic Movement and also photographed Television News Material for ZDF, ARD and PBS in the United States. In 1991 he received a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the Department of Graduate Film at New York University. After receiving a Masters Degree in 1995 he remained in the United States to gain experience in the feature film industry as a Director and Producer. He returned to South Africa in 2000 to work in the local industry and to teach aspiring film makers. His works as a Cinematographer and Director have been extensively broadcast on SABC and M-Net.
	Spring, Tim (Senior Lecturer - Film Department) Campus: Cape Town Born in Liverpool and is a supporter of the club. He has been in movies longer than he can remember, in South Africa, Rhodesia and Los Angeles. He has directed nine features films and over twenty TV drama series, the last being “Interrogation Room” on SABC, and is a passionate left-hander. Motto –“I’ll teach you to make movies, not to pass exams.”
Journalism Department
	Jolly, Lucinda (Head Of Department - Journalism Department) Campus: Cape Town Lucinda started her career in 1982 as a freelance journalist for the Argus & Cape Times newspapers and doing art teaching locums. She then worked as a Copywriter for a number of advertising agencies before joining the Groote Schuur Hospital as a medical illustrator until mid-1994. She has been involved in producing and presenting a weekly magazine radio programme on Bush Radio and served on the Film and Publications Board as an examiner. Before joining CityVarsity fulltime in 2007 as the HoD, she spent 11 years as a secondary school teacher teaching Art, Graphic Design, English and Life Orientation while running two evening short courses for CityVarsity namely Creative Writing and Magazine Journalism. Lucinda is a graduate of Michaelis School of Fine Art (UCT) with a BA Fine Art majoring in Printmaking and an HED (UCT).
	Jayes, Karen (Senior Lecturer - Journalism Department) Campus: Cape Town Karen Jayes worked as an Editor and Journalist on newspapers and magazines in South Africa and London for eleven years before turning to education. In the UK, she was senior editor of The Middle East Times, where she managed a diverse network of young Arab writers reporting under severe conditions from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. In South Africa, she has filled senior writing and editorial positions at Out There travel magazine and, most recently, Fairlady. She continues to write features on women and social issues for Fairlady and Psychologies magazines, and has also had work published in the Mail and Guardian. When she is not teaching and reporting, Karen is working on her own fiction and poetry – she was awarded the international PEN/Studzinski Literary Award by JM Coetzee in 2009, and she has had numerous poems published in New Contrast South African Literary Journal. She has also been a volunteer for the SPCA Horse Unit, and has helped devise programs that allow severely disabled people find freedom through swimming. She is a Senior Lecturer in Print Journalism and Creative Writing, which form a major part of CityVarsity’s Certificate in Journalism. She also runs short courses in Feature Writing.
Multimedia Department
	Caplan, Lesley (Head Of Department - Multimedia Department) Campus: Cape Town Lesley’s origins are in Great Britain where she qualified with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design in London. She has worked for the BBC and Independent TV in the UK as well as Computer Animation companies as Graphic Designer. Lesley designed the M-Net logo which has been in use for 22 years. Her experience ranges from TV, film, animation graphic design and photography, to lecturing and management in the educational sector. She has a passion for design and imagery and continues to draw, paint and illustrate her own work. Lesley has been with CityVarsity for 10 years, since its inception, as a lecturer in Graphic Design and as a Head of Department. She recently returned to CityVarsity having worked for TSiBA Education for 3 years, and is now enjoying being involved again with her primary passion of design in all its wondrous forms.
	Phyfer, Neil (Lecturer - Multimedia Department) Campus: Cape Town Neil Phyfer began a career in graphic design and illustration in 2000, he studied Graphic Design at Mac Train design school. He then worked as a graphic designer and DTP operate for Atkinson Television for the next five years. During that time he furthered his studies at the Animation School, learning the fundamentals of Maya and Studio Max. Neil is a self-taught illustrator; his illustration skills landed him a three year contract illustrating a daily comic strip for The Voice. The strip had a huge fan base; the strip was called Die Drie Skelms. Neil was asked to pass on his knowledge of illustration and design by creating online video tutorial for Cartoon Smart. These tutorials covered illustration, beginners guide to digital painting, t-shirt design and advanced digital painting. Neil has also been involved in painting murals at various high schools and primary schools to create awareness about water conservation for The City Of Cape Town. Last year Neil traveled around South Africa painting murals at Love Life Youth Centers to promote upliftment for the youth through art and music. Neil has worked as a worked as freelance illustrator and a contract designer to many companies over the last five years those companies include: Saatchi and Saatchi, Ogilvy, Strika Entertainment, Nike, Reebok, BNRY.
	Ringdal, Mandy (Senior Lecturer - Multimedia Department) Campus: Cape Town After completing her full time Diploma, Mandy joined an agency as digital designer and worked on web-based campaigns for local and international clients. She then moved on as the senior digital designer for a software development company, developing interactive presentations for the American government. After completing her lecturing qualifications, she started lecturing in London and moved on to CityVarsity in 2008 as well as free-lancing in illustration, print and web for various local and international brands. Mandy is the shortest staff member with the most tattoos. Mandy has been lecturing for 6 years and been with CityVarsity for 3.
	Roux, Jacques (Senior Lecturer - Multimedia Department) Campus: Cape Town Jacques studied at the University of Stellenbosh and the University of Johannesburg where he qualified with a BA (Hons) in Labour Law and an MA (SocSc -Clinical). He also has a diploma in Personnel Management and a Diploma in Public Relations. After working at the Office of the Family Advocate in Johannesburg specialising in mediating the dissolution of customary unions and the Parental Alienation Syndrome Jacques moved back to Cape Town to open a private practice. In his private practice he specialised in the diagnosis and treatment of Parental Alienation among separating and divorced couples. Jacques also commenced with further research in to Parental Alienation as part of his doctoral studies at the University of Stellenbosch. His professional career and interest unexpectedly evolved away from the human sciences field to that of the Internet and computer languages. He discovered that he has a natural aptitude for not only logics but also for grasping the complexities of computer languages very easily. One Saturday morning 10 years ago while attending a computer fair in Cape Town the head of a computer training college approached him and offered him a lecturing position. Jacques soon realised that he had found his passion in life and decided to dedicate his professional career to the training of computer languages. Jacques Roux has been a lecturer at CityVarsity for 10 years.
Photography Department
	Wildenboer, Barbara (Head Of Department - Photography Department) Campus: Cape Town Barbara Wildenboer was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1973. She completed a BA (Ed) with majors in English literature, Psychology and Pedagogics at the University of Pretoria in 1996. In 2003 she obtained a Bachelor of Visual Arts from UNISA followed by a Masters in Fine Art (which she obtained with distinction) from the Michaelis School of Art at the University of Cape Town in 2007. For her MFA exhibition Wildenboer used various photographic processes and techniques to bring over ideas of memory held and lost and the imprint of fleeting life recorded. Her dissertation Present Absence / Absent Presence specifically focussed on the manner in which we perceive photographic images to represent a presence in the absence of that which they refer to. Wildenboer has been awarded several international residencies such as the Unesco-Aschberg residency (Jordan, 2006), the Al Mahatta residency (Palestine, 2009) and the Red De Residencias Artísticas Local (Colombia, 2011).She has participated in several group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and will have her 5th solo exhibition entitled Library of the Infinitesimally Small and Unimaginably Large at ErdmannContemporary in 2011.
	Geffen, Rima (Senior Lecturer - Photography Department) Campus: Cape Town Rima Geffen achieved her Masters of Fine Art at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA, specializing in Art History, Printmaking and Photography. Rima Geffen then became a professor of Fine Art and Photography at VCU and also taught at other USA locations. Over the past 4 years she has exhibited in the USA and has won awards for her photography. In 2005 Rima had a photographic exhibition in Cape Town for the highly prestigious Month of Photography. She currently lectures photography full time at CityVarsity in both 1st and 2nd year programmes.
	Karvellas, Georgina (Lecturer - Photography Department) Campus: Cape Town Georgina Karvellas began her career working as an assistant to the famous portrait and wedding photographer, Anne Fisher. In 1965 she opened her own studio in Johannesburg and freelanced nationally and internationally in the fashion and commercial photography industry producing top class work for magazines, theatre stills and major clients. In 1978 Georgina moved to Los Angeles for 5 years and worked with Norman Seeff Studio. She travelled extensively as a photographer to the music industry throughout the US on commissions in Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, Cheyenne, Houston, Chicago, Nashville, New York and other cities. 1984-86 she had major exhibitions in South Africa. A solo exhibition, Commissioned Work and other Vanities, was held in Johannesburg’s Market Theatre Photo Gallery. Jo’burg by Night, a joint exhibition with the famous photojournalist, Rodney Barnett, was also held at the Market Theatre Photo Gallery From 1987 Georgina directed music videos and advertising commercials as well as shooting stills which was her core business, one of which was featured in 1997 Vita Art Now, in the Johannesburg Art Gallery. She has also spent much of her career shooting stills for national publications such as Leadership and Siyaya, (while David Goldblatt was photo editor), Femina, Marie Claire, House and Leisure, Food and Home, etc. In 2003 Georgina joined the CityVarsity Photographic department team, where she is currently employed, leading up the Studio and Artificial Lighting component.
Sound Engineering Department
	Ratcliffe, Simon (Head Of Department - Sound Engineering Department) Campus: Cape Town With around 16 years industry experience and 11 years of lecturing under his belt, Simon Ratcliffe has worked on a wide variety of projects with local and international artists in both the music and film domains. As owner of Sound & Motion Studios, which has 4 branches internationally, he has designed; taught and facilitated a wide variety of subjects related to sound engineering over the years and is a published author on the subject. In the studio Simon has recorded and mixed around Africa, in Europe, England and America where he has been lucky enough to work on projects featuring the likes of Kanye West, Akon, Scratch, UB40, Johnny Clegg and many more. Recently CityVarsity and Sound & Motion have forged an alliance giving students access to the studios that have wins and nominations in the Loeries, SAMA’s, Fleur De Caps, Apollos and Encounters festival awards, to name but a few. Needless to say Simon is thrilled! When not lecturing or working in the studio, he can be found making a curry or playing with his ground-breaking electro group Lark, who are currently working on their new album.
	Broomberg, Michael (Foley Lecturer - Sound Engineering Department) Campus: Cape Town Michael Broomberg has led an immensely interesting life. After having played music for a living with Capetonian jazz, pop and rock bands, he left South Africa to study drums, congas and ethnic percussion at Musician’s Institute P.I.T. in Hollywood, California. After his studies he notably toured, performed and recorded with Brian Auger (Oblivion Express), Eric Burdon (The Animals) & Robby Krieger (The Doors) Band among others. Michael became a member of the Screen Actors Guild Hollywood, to perform as a voice over artist and dialogue replacement (ADR) for various feature films including A Dry White Season, Biko, Mandela and De Klerk and A Far off Place among many others. He then directed his attention towards sound design by doing his apprenticeship at the Emmy, Grammy and Clio-Award winning Kent Gibson Soundesign. He has continued to work as a freelance Foley Artist for 20th Century Fox Studios, Disney, Paramount, Skywalker South, Sony/Columbia and Warner Bros. His impressive foley work on more than 130 feature films includes 6 Emmy nominations, 9 Golden Reel Award nominations (equivalent of the Oscars for sound) from Motion Pictures Sound Editors, with 1 win for Steven Spielberg’s ‘War of the Worlds’. Michael was part of the sound team nominated nominated for 3 Oscars for best sound editing and foley (3 Kings, War of the Worlds & Spiderman 3). In 2010, he was nominated for Golden Reel Awards for his work on Watchmen, 2012 and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. As if that wasn’t enough, Mike started the Rooibos Tea Co (www.africanredtea.com) with his partner which imports and supplies Rooibos tea to health food distributors and supermarkets throughout America. He is still partially invested in the business which continues to thrive. Mike continues to work as a foley artist for CSS Studios in Santa Monica, California on a project-by-project basis. Oh and did we mention he also lectures our Sound Engineering students in Foley we he’s not in Hollywood? (For a full list of films Michael’s worked on, as well as his awards, check out http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0004385/ )
	Hellenberg, Adriaan (Senior Lecturer - Sound Engineering Department) Campus: Cape Town Adriaan has been with CityVarsity for 2 years now and has recently taken on the new role as a Senior Lecturer and Assistant to the Head of Department, Simon Ratcliffe. Adriaan is a Post-Production Engineer and Music Producer with 6 years’ experience behind him. He studied for 3 years at CityVarsity in Kloof St, Cape Town, where he graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Sound Recording Engineering, majoring in Music Production & Arrangement. He then went on to work at eTV for 2 years, recording and mixing promos as well as final mixing “The Showbiz Report” & “The Rough Cut”. He has also written music for eTV and designed radio branding stings. Joburg seemed like the next step, landing a fulltime job for premier post production house Videolab. Working on local and international productions, he gained experience in ADR for film/TV shows, recording voice overs, designing sound for TV adverts, final mixing for TV shows/documentaries, writing music, dealing with talent and confidential media. Adriaan worked on such projects as “Mr Bones 2”, BBC’s “Robinson Crusoe”, Emmy Award Nominated “End Game”, and many TV productions that you’ve probably watched! He has worked alongside such icons as John Kani, Leon Schuster, and many award winning directors. After a year, he headed back to Cape Town to start lecturing Music Production & Arrangement fulltime at CityVarsity and found his own business “Multiband Studios” doing final mix, sound design, as well as more creative music composition work in the local television and film industry. SABC 3’s “Top Billing”, “Top Dog’s”, “Life’s a Journey” and eSat’s “The Style Report” are some of the series that Adriaan has mixed in the past two years. In 2011, Adriaan is undertaking a contract at a Waterfront Studios based production company, designing sound and mixing shows for the BBC and other TV channels. He is also currently in production with an exciting professional music project.
	Leachman, Neil (Head Of Department - Sound Engineering Department) Campus: Cape Town Neil graduated with B.Mus (Performance & Technology) from NMMU. After touring America in 2004 he joined Damelin’s Sound Department as Senior Lecturer where he lectured software, practical and theoretical subjects for the past 8 years. Neil is a live sound engineer with experience in stage management for Berlinda Carlisle's South African tour, Technical SM and FOH assistant for Ronan Keating southern leg of his South Africa tour to being FOH engineer for the Annual ECPO concert in the park. He has also done FOH for a number of festivals including the Durban One World Festival and Kenton New Year’s Music Festival. He spends a large amount of his time writing and recording music, with a style ranging from alternative industrial rock to orchestral compositions. His most recent orchestral work was commissioned by the Eastern Cape Philharmonic Orchestra for performance at the Eastern Cape Youth Orchestral experience. He has been an active member of this orchestra for the past 20 years holding the position of section leader for the lower brass for the last 10 years and serving on the executive committee for the past 8 years. Neil enjoys theatre performance and most recently was awarded Best Supporting Actor at the Showtime Awards in Port Elizabeth for his role as Jud Fry in the local G&S production of Oklahoma. He was also Musical director for Ian von Memerty's musical adaption of Fiela's Child while also playing as Elias van Rooyen in this popular production. Neil is an avid hockey player and umpire and can be caught spending his weekends umpiring and coaching on the side of the hockey field.
New Media Development
	Roux, Jacques (Course Co-ordinator And Senior Lecturer - New Media Development) Campus: Cape Town Jacques studied at the University of Stellenbosh and the University of Johannesburg where he qualified with a BA (Hons) in Labour Law and an MA (SocSc -Clinical). He also has a diploma in Personnel Management and a Diploma in Public Relations. After working at the Office of the Family Advocate in Johannesburg specialising in mediating the dissolution of customary unions and the Parental Alienation Syndrome Jacques moved back to Cape Town to open a private practice. In his private practice he specialised in the diagnosis and treatment of Parental Alienation among separating and divorced couples. Jacques also commenced with further research in to Parental Alienation as part of his doctoral studies at the University of Stellenbosch. His professional career and interest unexpectedly evolved away from the human sciences field to that of the Internet and computer languages. He discovered that he has a natural aptitude for not only logics but also for grasping the complexities of computer languages very easily. One Saturday morning 10 years ago while attending a computer fair in Cape Town the head of a computer training college approached him and offered him a lecturing position. Jacques soon realised that he had found his passion in life and decided to dedicate his professional career to the training of computer languages. Jacques Roux has been a lecturer at CityVarsity for 10 years.