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WHO WE ARE

At Sisanda Henna Films, we’re obsessed with EXCELLENCE and AFRICA. 

A boutique film company, produces a select number of projects each year. Focused on Afro-centric fiction and nonfiction; creating world-class motion pictures for global distribution to reach mass and niche audiences worldwide.

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OMOWALE

PRODUCER • 2022

Sisanda Henna Films co-produced a Canvus Productions short film, Omowale, early in 2022. A film about a mathematics professor who must do all he can to protect his daughter during xenophobic attacks.

GAUTENG MABONENG

DIRECTOR / SERIES PRODUCER • 2014 • SABC

Telling the story of a happily dysfunctional family working things out, it centres around Lebo, a loveable car-mechanic & wannabe rapper who gets more than he bargained for when he inherits a large fortune…and a precocious niece!

One Night kwaMxolisi

DIRECTOR • 2021 • MNET / SHOWMAX

A group of close university friends get together to celebrate the opening of Mxo’s new restaurant, M.X.O’s on 4th. Throughout the evening the pressure on the hidden secrets between them surmounts to breaking point.

ISONO

DIRECTOR / PRODUCTION SERVICES • 2021 • BET Africa

BET Africa’s first daily drama on DStv Channel 129. It revolves around Mary Ndlovu, known as the ‘Mother of the Nation,’ and explores how hidden secrets lead to deadly sins within a dysfunctional family in Vosloorus, Johannesburg’s East Rand.

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Producer
SABC
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2025
Claudio is a Mozambican teen who decided to join a gang in his school. The gang leader, Ntokozo, tasks him with his final initiation which involves the gang stealing the school’s new laptops. This leads Claudio to a world of trouble when he is suspected by the school and the only person to help him out of his situation is his persistent best friend, Ntsako.

Coming Soon

Producer
SABC
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2025
On the anniversary of the Kivu massacre, risk avoidant Shift driver Didier Mulegwa a war refugee from the DRC is taken on the ride of his life when a deaf 7-year-old Sandile escapes his kidnapper and jumps into his car.

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