WHO
WE
ARE
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.
WORK
Explore our world of
Afro-centric narratives in motion.
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.
