Passing Trains

Passing Trains Passing Trains is a boutique film production company, specialising in commercials, music videos, bra Passing Trains is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Passing Trains is a film company, producing commercials, music videos, branded content, and feature films. Producer: Marisa Bracher, Directors: Etienne de Villiers and Quinton Lavery. Director Etienne de Villiers is the founding member of the company, with more than thirty years of writing, producing and directing experience in television programmes, documentaries, drama series, commercials and fe

ature films. Etienne is best known for his performance directing and storytelling abilities, for which he has won numerous awards. Quinton Lavery recently joined Etienne as another Passing Trains Director. Quinton’s work reflects his all-consuming passion for film and directing, and his quirky and creative style has already won him MK Music Video Awards, three Loeries and a Pendoring award. Marisa Bracher produces for Passing Trains. A Journalism graduate, Marisa has spent 20 years in the Media world, producing content for radio, internet, TV and the big screen, both in South Africa and abroad. This experience makes her a well-rounded producer who is able to understand clients’ needs and deliver a project on budget and on time. Known for her ‘can-do’ attitude, Marisa usually sports a cheery smile around the office – unless the coffee runs out!

What a classic!
18/04/2024

What a classic!

Vittorio de Sica and Enzo Staiola filming Bicycle
Thieves (1948)

07/04/2024

Olivia Colman has joined the chorus of Hollywood stars expressing their distaste for self-taped auditions. She is explaining why she feels like the entertainment industry’s increased reliance on audition tapes ultimately hurts actors: https://trib.al/3YhlVc0

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06/01/2024

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Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche in The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988

01/12/2023

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"I hate rankings about who is better. I don't deal with technique, I deal with emotions."
I'm no longer interested in hyper-technical, funambolic musicians who are not able to convey emotions. Better four notes expressed with soul than a thousand without. Think of Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Chet Baker, and Joao Gilberto.
Charlie Watts was for me the essence of the Stones' sound, without doing spectacular acrobatics. Many will disagree. I've read a lot of publications about lists of musicians but for me, music is not competition, it's sharing."
- Jimmy Page
Real Rocker Rex ✌🏽💜🤘🏼

Website Update - Check it out😊
19/10/2023

Website Update - Check it out😊

Film Production Company. Ons Maak Mooi

17/10/2023

“Mr. Fiennes, what’s the best advice a director has given you on a film set?”

“Well, I remember Steven Spielberg was incredibly informed about lenses and technical things, and that made him very instinctive in terms of how he directed: “Do it quicker, faster, something’s not right.” He is totally spontaneous, he doesn’t try to measure his direction but it’s very true, it’s very direct and for that reason, very exciting. Anthony Minghella was wonderful, gently guiding you over here, over there, wonderfully reassuring and very, very nurturing. But something I’ll always remember is working the Hungarian filmmaker István Szábo.”

“Why is that?”

“I did a film called ‘Sunshine’ with him, and he has a very classical approach. I remember him saying to me that he felt that the close-up was the key element, that cinema is about the close-up on the human face, that thoughts and feelings are born on the face for the first time. And that always stuck with me how he looked for that when he was directing, for the virgin moment.”

Interview with Ralph Fiennes
Conducted by KALEEM AFTAB
For The Talks

Photo Helmut Newton - Ralph Fiennes, 1995

16/10/2023

Jesse Kriel 👏

So many owe this man an apology. He is the true epitome of what this Springbok team is all about.

Unsung hero at this World Cup 🫡

16/08/2023

Happy Birthday, Wim Wenders!

28/05/2023

“I’m trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn’t illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself, and you see something sublime.”​
— Werner Herzog

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Passing Trains is a boutique film company with a passion for making beautiful moving images - from commercials and music videos to branded content and feature films. We’re based in Cape Town, South Africa. Director Etienne de Villiers is the founding member of the company, with more than thirty years of writing, producing and directing experience in television programmes, documentaries, drama series, commercials and feature films. Etienne is best known for his performance directing and storytelling abilities, for which he has won numerous awards. Quinton Lavery recently joined Etienne as another Passing Trains Director. Quinton’s work reflects his all-consuming passion for film and directing, and his quirky and creative style has already won him MK Music Video Awards, three Loeries and a Pendoring award. Marisa Bracher produces for Passing Trains. A Journalism graduate, Marisa has spent 20 years in the Media world, producing content for radio, internet, TV and the big screen, both in South Africa and abroad. This experience makes her a well-rounded producer who is able to understand clients’ needs and deliver a project on budget and on time. Known for her ‘can-do’ attitude, Marisa usually sports a cheery smile around the office – unless the coffee runs out!