Thrilled to announce that the South African Petrus Van Staden is attending Cannes as part of the DEENTAL Cannes Programme supported the @le_cnc with five other upcoming and talented Producers.

He is attending workshops, meetings and eventually presenting his own production company, the incredible @theelephantvanished, and his next attractive project.

Petrus van Staden is a South African filmmaker based between New York City and South Africa. In 2019 he co-founded Vanishing Elephant with Tebogo Malebogo driven by a desire to find a way to tell meaningful stories. Their shorts have screened at Locarno, SXSW, JCC, New Directors New Films, and New York Film Festival and have won multiple awards, being distributed to spaces such as Mubi, Topic, Canal + Poland and WatchArgo. He has worked between South Africa, Tanzania and the USA – producing independent work as well as an episode for Netflix’s African Folktales Reimagined Anthology series.He is passionate about diversity, collaboration, finding ways to tell and uplift marginalised stories, and exploring how to tell those stories authentically and just. Apart from the selections mentioned above, he has been part of productions selected for Sundance, IFFR, Oberhausen, and Durban and work supported by the SFFILM Rainin grant, the Atlas Workshops and the Red Sea Souk.

The Elephant Vanished is a South African creative endeavor with a strong pull towards authentic and conscious stories.

With aspirations rooted in the belief that quality should not be sacrificed – especially that of the story – our work has been presented at festivals such as Locarno, Montreal, Cork and SXSW and licensed to platforms such as MUBI and Canal+.

Petrus van Staden is one of the most brilliant and talented authors Mailuki Films has worked with over the last two decades.

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