Fidel Namisi
- Writer
- Producer
- Camera and Electrical Department
![Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, Muzi is a street dance prodigy struggling to keep a promise he made to his mother to never dance again after his equally gifted father was murdered at a street party twelve years earlier. Little does he know that his father's death was not as everyone believed it to be. When his father's ex-dance partner, Shoes, approaches Muzi to join his dance crew, "Sbujwa Nation", Muzi has to choose between finding out the truth about his father's death or disappointing his mother. What he does not realize is that by joining Shoes's crew, he will make himself mortal enemies with Prince, the former leader of Shoes's crew and head of a new dance crew that's taking the city by storm. As Muzi struggles to adapt to his new crew, Prince garners support throughout the dance community by upstaging “Sbujwa Nation” whenever he can and gaining popularity ahead of the big dance competition that everyone is working towards, titled “Hear ME Move.” Muzi has to dig deep and come up with something that the crowds have never seen before, while at the same time fighting to keep the crew together in the face of backstabbing, jealousy and his budding romance with Khanyi, the stunningly beautiful girl in “Sbujwa Nation” and Muzi’s school mate in college. Eventually he finds an old VHS tape that his father left him before he died, and that proves to be the game changer.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTU1ODM5MTkwNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjkyMjA0MjE@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,47,500,281_.jpg)
Fidel Namisi is a screenwriter and film producer born in Nairobi, Kenya. He is best known as the writer, executive producer and producer of South Africa's first dance movie, "Hear Me Move". He has lived and worked in South Africa for the last 15 years. He has been nominated for the South African Writers Guild Award thrice and won the award twice (2013 and 2014). He has also won the Kalasha Award for Best Original Screenplay (2015). In 2014, Screen International listed him on the "Top 40 Producers To Watch" list. He has also written and produced eight TV movies, as well as created the drama series "Remix" (Mzansi Magic), "Guilt" (SABC 2) "Thula's Vine" (SABC 3) and "iKani" (SABC1). As a writer he has worked on "Soul Buddyz: Series 3" (SABC1, 2006), "A Place Called Home" (SABC 1, 2007), "Rhythm City" (eTV, 2009) and "Zone 14" (SABC 1, 2010), "Thula's Vine" (SABC3, 2016 ) and "Guilt" (SABC2, 2017), "Isibaya" (Mzansi Magic, 2019), "The Omen" (Mzansi Magic, 2020) and "Judas Kiss" (SABC1, 2020).
Fidel graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007, where he was voted the Film and TV Department's "Most Promising Student". While there, he won the Leontine Sagan award for best student proceeding to the final year of Drama, as well as the E.J.A. Loerincz scholarship. He was also admitted to the Golden Key Honours Society. After university, he won the BASA Award for Arts Sponsorship by a Business for his work on the "Off The Shelf" Film Screenings and has twice been a MultiChoice Vuka! Award Finalist. He is a co-founder of Coal Stove Pictures, a South African film production company.
Fidel graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007, where he was voted the Film and TV Department's "Most Promising Student". While there, he won the Leontine Sagan award for best student proceeding to the final year of Drama, as well as the E.J.A. Loerincz scholarship. He was also admitted to the Golden Key Honours Society. After university, he won the BASA Award for Arts Sponsorship by a Business for his work on the "Off The Shelf" Film Screenings and has twice been a MultiChoice Vuka! Award Finalist. He is a co-founder of Coal Stove Pictures, a South African film production company.