Popcorn Post Production

Popcorn Post Production Hi and welcome to our page! Popcorn Post Production established itself in February 2007. Please do not hesitate to call any of us!

With over 20 years experience in the film industry, Popcorn Post Production is a full service company that can facilitate all your filming and post production needs. The founding members are:

David Scholfield: Offline Editor on Final Cut Pro

Peter Lowe: Online Editor/Graphics on After Effects/3D Studio Max/Final Cut Pro HD

Richard Hughes: Offline/Online Editor on Final Cut Pro HD & Adobe After

Effects/Color

As a team we have been working together for 8 years but have over 35 years combined experience in the film/creative industry. David started off working for Ogilvy as a junior art director before becoming a freelance editor. In 1994 he formed his own CC Company called the Apple Corps before forming a partnership with Roger Orpen in 1996 to become the head of the post production department for the Cutting Edge. David is now the majority shareholder for Popcorn Post Production and his invaluable experience, dedication to his work and always calm nature under extreme pressure makes him a most valuable asset to any post production job. Peter started of in the industry as a photographic retouch artist for FCB Johannesburg before moving down to FCB’s Cape Town branch. He then moved on to edit and design graphics for Hirt & Carter before moving on to The Cutting Edge in 2003. Peters knowledge of both sides of the industry has given him the upper hand into what is required to produce the best finished product. His attention to detail and willingness to always craft what he creates as well as the speed in which he does it makes the final online process smooth sailing from start to finish. Richard started off in the film industry working as a barman/runner for the Video Lab in early 2000. Working his way up the ladder he worked as an assistant in Telecine, CAR and as an AVID offline assistant as well as being the driver, coffee maker, client liason, you name it, he did it. In August 2001 an opportunity opened up for him as a VT operator at the Cutting Edge which he took and he dedicated his free time and weekends to teach himself how to edit and eventually started to do small jobs from weddings to castings etc before eventually moving onto commercials. Now specializing in documentaries and working on exciting jobs such as the Cape Town International Jazz Festival and Sports Illustrated Swimwear, Richard will always go the extra mile to make sure that the client is always 110% satisfied. We offer highly competitive rates and are always willing to accommodate you as best as possible.

We’re proud to announce the launch of our newly designed website, alongside a refined brand identity.While many know us ...
04/05/2026

We’re proud to announce the launch of our newly designed website, alongside a refined brand identity.

While many know us for our expertise in post-production, our offering extends far beyond that. We provide fully integrated production solutions—managing everything from concept development through to filming and final delivery.

This new platform reflects the full scope of what we do today, while still staying true to the foundation we’ve built over the years.

For our long-standing clients and collaborators, you’ll recognise elements of the journey. For those discovering us for the first time, welcome—we invite you to explore our work.

If you’re looking for a trusted partner to bring your next project to life, we’d be glad to connect.

Thank you to our friends from Expand Agency for the amazing website design.

https://popcornfilms.co.za

06/02/2026

This was an awesome job we got to work on in collaboration with the amazing team from Bird On A Wire and Director/DOP Estiaan Labuschagne. This was one of many videos that was created from the launch experience. We did the editing, colour grading and sound design on this and enjoyed every second of putting it together.

Looking forward to many more amazing collaborations in the future! If you think that's you please feel free to reach out, we would love to work with you!

Contact: [email protected] or [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you

ENJOY!

19/01/2026

"WHERE OCEAN CURRENTS COLLLIDE"

We had the amazing opportunity to collaborate and do post production for the very talented team at Fresh Visual and Head South Productions alongside Nikon and their new Nikon ZR Red Cinema Camera. This small feature is about Dr Moagabo Ragoasha and her journey into oceanography and how she tries to encourage our future generations to get involved and pursue it as a career.

Produced and Directed by Joe Alblas
Filmed by Brendan Allen

Edited and colour graded by Richard "Flare" Hughes

07/01/2026

SOUTHERN FINANCE - "BARBER"

Creative Agency: Expand Agency
Client: Southern Finance

PRODUCTION TEAM:

Director:
Richard "Flare" Hughes
D.O.P:
Paul Michael Charles
Creative Director:
Lara Hughes

Johlize van der Merwe
Carla van der Walt
Calli Carmacho
Lyle Michaels
Liam McMaster

Lighting Team:
Vincent Julius
Mlusi Ngcobo

POST PRODUCTION:
Popcorn Post Production

Editor and Colourist:
Richard "Flare: Hughes

Happy New Year to all our friends, family and clients! May 2026 be an awesome year for all!!
02/01/2026

Happy New Year to all our friends, family and clients! May 2026 be an awesome year for all!!

11/12/2025

GVK-SIYA ZAMA is one of our favourite clients! What we loved about the Soshanguve Mall project is that the building as a whole reminded us of an intergalactic space ship and the food court/play area even has a dedicated space theme to it. So that was part of the inspiration as far as the direction of the edit was concerned and we are extremely happy with the end result despite the many challenges we had on the days of shooting. Thank you as always to Paul Michael Charles for capturing some amazing creative angles of the building. Part of the challenge was to film and work around a very busy construction site but still make the mall look empty and pretty much finished. I think we managed to achieve that. The drone shots we done by Richard Flare Hughes on the DJI Mavic Air 3S and thankfully the weather played nice allowing him to capture everything he needed.
The mall officially opened it's doors on the 21st of November.
Thank you GVK-SIYA ZAMA for always trusting us with the work. Can't wait for the next project.

Looking forward to attending the Bookmark Awards next week in Johannesburg with our partners from Expand Agency. Holding...
05/08/2025

Looking forward to attending the Bookmark Awards next week in Johannesburg with our partners from Expand Agency. Holding thumbs for the win! Also we just entered the Loeries and are super excited to see what happens there. Good thing happening! Come on 2025, give us more!!

Excited to announce that our film and editing work in collaboration with Expand Agency has been nominated for a Bookmark...
09/07/2025

Excited to announce that our film and editing work in collaboration with Expand Agency has been nominated for a Bookmark Award in the Digital Social Media Campaign category for Sir Fruit's "Homegrown" Campaign. Also congratulations to Expand Agency for also being nominated under the categories for Best Website Design and Email, Direct & Inbound Marketing. An awesome team effort all around and one of many to come in the future!

Some BTS Snaps from our recent set of TV commercials for Finance 27, Blink Finance and Southern Finance. Shot on the RED...
11/05/2025

Some BTS Snaps from our recent set of TV commercials for Finance 27, Blink Finance and Southern Finance. Shot on the RED Komodo 6K. Thank you to the team from Expand for all the hard work in putting the creative into this project and thank you to the cast and crew for 2 amazing days on set!

09/05/2025

Apologies for the radio silence, but as Black Sabbath's lyrics go: "I'm going through changes" That being said we have been working on a few really great projects. We have just wrapped up 19 commercials for Southern Finance, Blink Finance and Finance 27! Looking forward to sharing these with you soon!

We're also in the process of editing something special for a brand new client who we can't share the details with just yet but it's going to be amazing!

Also very exciting is our entry into this years Bookmark Awards for our online social media campaign we directed and did post production on for Sir Fruit in collaboration with our good friends at Expand Agency!

We look forward to sharing some of this work with you soon. Hope you all have a great weekend!

10/03/2025

We've officially entered our Sir Fruit campaign into this year's Bookmark Awards. Thanks again to the amazing team from Expand Agency who made it all possible. This will hopefully be the first of many!!

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