Bergie

South Africa
2022
Fiction
7 min.

 

Direvtor | Dian Weys
Script | Dian Weys
Director of photography | Pierre de Villiers
Sound designer | Morné Marais
Main cast | Oscar Petersen, Nicola Hanekom, Gretchen Ramsden, David Isaacs, Dean Balie, Robert Hindley, Earl Kruger
Producers | Keenan Arrison, Le Roux Fourie, Dian Weys
Production company | Stranger Films (Pty) Ltd.

 

A law enforcement officer has to remove people that are homeless in order to make way for a 10km fun-run.

 

About the director:

Dian Weys studied BCom Law and English Honours at the University of the Free State and Honours in Film & Television Studies at the University of Cape Town. He completed a Masters in Film Studies cum laude at the University of Cape Town in 2016 and has since published research papers on cine-ethics and responsible filmmaking. Versnel, his first short film, screened at fifteen film festivals, including five Oscar Qualifying® festivals. Plaashuis, his crowdfunded second short film, was selected at festivals such as the FIAPF-accredited Tampere Film Festival and Message to Man International Film Festival, Apart from filmmaking, he lectures part-time at both the University of the Free State and the University of Stellenbosch.
Bergie (2022) is his third short film.