Malcolm Kohll

After 32 years in London as a writer/producer, Malcolm returned to Cape Town in 2014 to run AFDA, the foremost film school in the province. His experience there led him to co-found with Michael S.Murphey the non-profit DOCi Emerging Film Makers Programme, supported by the US Consulate in Cape Town. The intensive training offered on the course is designed to offer previously disadvantaged young filmmakers an introduction to filmmaking. All of the young filmmakers' work has been screened at the international Encounters Documentary Festival. Malcolm initially trained as a journalist at Rhodes University, fleeing the country in February 1977 at the height of the student unrest. In London, he undertook a Post Graduate film course at Middlesex University and then entered the industry, initially as a script reader for Thorn Emi, and David Puttnam's Goldcrest Films. He was accepted onto a BBC writer's course and wrote for the iconic Sci-Fi series Dr Who. In 1989 he returned to the country to write and co-produce The Fourth Reich for director Manie Van Rensburg. Returning to the UK, Malcolm joined Focus Films as Head of Development, and over the next few years developed nine international feature films, the most prominent being The 51st State aka Formula 51. Malcolm also continued writing in his private capacity, with his South African thriller Good Hope being published in 2014. Today he works part-time as a script editor for the NFVF and continues to write and develop projects for the local and international markets while pursuing his work at DOCi and DISA.