Talent Guide

Ian Gabriel

  • Discipline:Director
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2023

Bio

Ian Gabriel is a South African director of colour who has been directing award-winning commercials, music videos, feature films, and TV for audiences across the globe. His feature films have been nominated as South Africa’s Official Selection for Best Foreign Film at the 86th Academy Awards and a Golden Leopard at the 57th Locarno International Film Festival where he also won the Human Rights Award, and have won Best Feature at the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, and Best South African Feature at the Durban International Film Festival.

Current Project

Granny Lee

Logline

An outrageous white-passing trans femme disco-dancing granny in Apartheid South Africa befriends a deceased gay boy's affluent and conservative mother, in an attempt to crib funds for his community in dire need of assistance due to the rising HIV/AIDS crisis - unaware the grieving woman is on a crusade to enact revenge on the man she imagines infected her son.