SJ van Breda on Clubhouse

Bio

Film Director/Editor 🇿🇦
Xiaomi Mi Creator 🧡
Vancouver Film School FP171 🎥 Filmic Fest Doc Winner 2019 🎬 Adobe Top Talent 2019/2020

SJ van Breda was born and raised in Durban, South Africa. She graduated as a mechanical engineer from the University of Cape Town before pursuing film at Vancouver Film School.

SJ has screened films at Whistler Film Festival, Oxford International Film Festival, Chilliwack Independent Film Festival, SA Indie Festival, and has filmed two shorts in Italy for the Pigneto and CICI Film Festivals. She was also placed in the top 10 of the Nespresso Talents 2018 and 2020, was selected as a Top Talent for the Adobe Design Achievement awards and won the documentary category of FilmicFest 2019. SJ was a speaker on mobile filmmaking at the FilmicPro creator summit 2020, and has most recently worked with Ginkgo Agency on editing The Beautiful News SA and Australia.

SJ is currently a Mi Creator with Xiaomi Studios, and a freelance director and editor in Cape Town, South Africa, focusing on documentary content in conjunction with NGOs such as WWF, Greenpeace, UNFPA and UNAIDS. She also served as an instructor and jury member for the inaugural MMOCA Film Festival in Cape Town in 2020.

SJ is currently in pre-production for a documentary in Botswana and is writing her first narrative feature.