MANKS Motion Picture Studios Inc.

06/19/2025

With FilmNation Entertainment – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

06/19/2025

With The Horror House – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

06/16/2025

I love writing quirky screenplays, even though they will probably never, ever make it to the big, or small, screen. Netflix Warner Bros. Entertainment Walt Disney Studios Tubi Horror Movies FilmNation Entertainment The Horror House 20th Century Studios Horror Blumhouse Productions Lionsgate Dimension Films Hammer Films New Line Cinema

01/20/2025

Excellent! Two separate writing accolades for two different screenplays in one week. Netflix CBC William Morris Endeavor Creative Artists Agency OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network Hulu Tubi Walt Disney Studios SUMO (大相撲）

12/05/2024

Today my partners and I submited our 223 page e-document application to the Municipality of Swakopmund. It has long been my dream to build a world-class motion picture studio in Namibia (likely my family’s ancestral home), so my partners and I are hopeful that, after 2+ years of emails, presentations, environmental impact assessments, geo surveys, and meetings, the Municipality will approve Desert Dunes Film Studios, our $370m project. www.desertdunesfilmstudios.com

11/06/2024

After running away from Witch's Academy, a young girl uses her fledgling magic and potions to free herself, and a group of women, captured by human traffickers, who are being pursued by a tenacious UN Cop and an enraged headmistress Guillermo del Toro. nixey, , WITCHES Witchcraft Walt Disney Studios Netflix Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Warner Bros. Entertainment Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiccan and Pagan Community

A film in development about a 16 year old girl who runs away from a school for witches only to be captured, along with six other women, by a vicious gang of ...

06/29/2024

West Video just delivered the finished edit of our marketing trailer. Kudos to the cast and crew especially director nockels and our lead Shannon Esra , Hoping that you'll soon see our eight episode TV drama on your local channel or a streamer.

04/27/2024

That's a wrap!!! for our Doctor of the Dead trailer. Many thanks to director Guy Nockels (red shirt) and special thanks to our lead actress Shannon Esra and to all the Johannesburg crew. And of course to Dr. Hestelle van Staden for allowing us to option the book about her amazing life story as one of South Africa's leading forensic pathologists. beckmann OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network Kwebu coetser mala FilmNation Entertainment Walt Disney Studios CBCDrama G-Unit Sicwebu

11/17/2023

Great news! We have partnered with South African producer and award-winning cinematographer Uwe Beckmann, SASC for our forensic pathologist TV drama DOCTOR TO THE DEAD based on Dr. Hestelle van Staden's amazing book Uwe Beckmann Guy Nockels Creative Artists Agency Vonti McRae The Characters Talent Agency William Morris Endeavor Forensic Pathologists Hestelle van Staden Gys Visser NB-Uitgewers/Publishers

11/06/2023

Great chat with podcaster and business entrepreneur Vonti McRae about the episodic TV show we have in development, DOCTOR TO THE DEAD. Check out Vonti's podcast 'Vonti Talks with Filmmakers', filmconvopodcast.com Vonti Pictures Creative Artists Agency Charlize Theron Hestelle van Staden Tosin Coker

10/24/2023

Our Canadian production company is thrilled that renown South African Forensic Pathologist Dr. Hestelle van Stader and her agent have entrusted us with her compelling and recently-published novel Blood Has A Voice. Our production partner Guy Nockels will be meeting with sales agents and broadcasters at the upcoming American Film Market in the hope of soon bringing the doctor's amazing story to the small screen. American Film Market OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network Netflix Kunle Afolayan Kunle Falodun Mo Abudu Prime Video Charles D King Walt Disney Studios Warner Bros. Entertainment Onkabetse Moagi Peace Hyde Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Guy Nockels Williams Tyler Perry Studios