Busisiwe Ntintili (Jiva!, Happiness is a Four-Letter Word) has been named showrunner of the female-driven, South Africa-based wildlife crime thriller series Shadowland, from Athena Pictures, Starlings Television, Advantage Entertainment and Ntintili Factory.
Ntintili, an award-winning film and television writer, director and producer, who also chairs the Writers Guild South Africa, is a leading voice in the African market. Career highlights include Netflix’s Jiva!, Showmax’s The Wife, SABC’s Intersexions and film Happiness is a Four-Letter Word.
Shadowland centers around a fierce and reclusive female wildlife activist who teams up with a reticent special operations veteran to uncover a plot to ambush a rhino translocation caravan. Based on real people and events, Shadowland is a love story set against a backdrop that is quintessentially African: beautiful and stark, fraught and hopeful, a land of life and death, of light and shadow.
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