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Africa Earth's Wild Home

2026

African wildlife and landscapes is brought to the screen like never before, using the latest technology to tell the most extraordinary stories from the continent and cutting-edge CGI to unearth the deep history and forces that shaped Africa's natural worlds.

Jessica Mathews

Jessica was born in Florida. She graduated from The University of Florida with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, and Dual Minors in Economics. Her credits are in both features and television, including appearances on: Torchwood, Las Vegas, Method and Red, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Wild On E!, Art Mann Presents, and Street Stars, along with the features BorderLords II, Change Your Life, and Triangle. Jessica has had the pleasure of working alongside actors such as Lisa Ann Walter, Gary Busey, Gene Simmons, Mike Genovese and John Cothran. For a decade, Jessica has produced television shows, pilots, feature films, feature trailers, commercials, music videos, web series and live theatre. Television credits include: Intervention (A&E), Toddlers and Tiaras (TLC), Second Chance Retreat (HBO Max), Stung (GSN), Intervention: The Heroin Triangle (A&E), Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell (Food Network), Atomic Mom (Lifetime), Uncomfortable Conversations with Celebrities (A&E), Undiagnosed (A&E), Test Dummies (MTV), Walk of Shame Shuttle (VH1), and Gonzalez Twins (Freeform). Commercials include Toyota and the LA Lakers. Jessica loves indie films and her projects have an extensive award list. They include the Award Winning features Marfa Girl (Marcus Aurelius Award for Best Film, Rome Film Festival/Dir: Larry Clark), Triangle (Two Africa Movie Academy Awards/Dir: Theodros Teshome), and Holding Back (Best Feature, Angeleno Film Festival). Additional features include the Dances with Films-Nominee The Last Treasure Hunt (Multiple Official Selections/Dir: Patrick Biesemans) and Vanished (Official Selection LA Indie Film Fest/Dir: Adrian Donaldson). In addition, she has produced nine more Award Winning shorts: Notes on Lying, Guitar Party Nightmare, In Silence, Man vs. Survival, The Proposition, I Am Neda, Pull Down the Moon, The Big Meet, and Warehouse. Her awards list on the indie film circuit includes: Best Film at Poppy Jasper, Spirit of Moondance Award at the Moondance Int'l Film Festival, People's Choice Award at London Shorts, Award of Merit at AOF Film Festival, Best Narrative Short at the Virginia Film Festival, Best Comedy at the Angeleno Film Festival, Special Jury Award at the Scary or Die Film Festival, 4th Place at the Atom Tournament Film Festival, Best Comedy at the Dam Short Film Festival, Audience Choice Award at the Virginia Film Festival, Honorable Mention Los Angeles Movie Awards, Best Feature Film at the Angeleno Film Festival, Winner Platinum Remi Special Jury Award WorldFest Houston Int'l Film Festival, Finalist American Pavilion at Cannes, Winner Best Int'l Short at Burbank Int'l Film Festival, Winner Best Drama Short at AOF Film Fest, Winner Best Short Film Under 30 Minutes at the World Music and Independent Film Festival, Winner Honorable Mention at the Hollywood & Vine Film Festival, Nominated Best Short Film at the Moondance Int'l Film Festival, Top 25 in the 24-Hour LA Film Fest, LA Reels Film Festival Honorable Mention Award, The Earth Award at Cinerockom Film Festival, Best Short Film at Frogtown Film Festival and Best Music Video at the Garden State Film Festival.

Trevor Rabin

Composer · Known for Armageddon, Bad Boys II, Con Air

Trevor Charles Rabin (/ˈreɪbɪn/; born 13 January 1954) is a South African musician, singer-songwriter, producer, and film composer. Born into a musical family and raised in Johannesburg, Rabin took up the piano and guitar at an early age and became a session musician, playing and producing with a variety of artists. In 1972, he joined the rock band Rabbitt who enjoyed considerable success in South Africa, and released his first solo album, Beginnings. In 1978, Rabin moved to London to further his career, working as a solo artist and a producer for various artists including Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Rabin became a prolific film composer and has since scored over 40 feature films, most notably his frequent collaborations with producer Jerry Bruckheimer. He has won numerous awards, including 11 BMI Awards. He took a short break from scoring to record his fifth solo album, Jacaranda (2012), and in 2016 to tour and record with Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman. In 2017, Rabin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Trevor Rabin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Will Hutchins

Cast · Known for Matinee Theater

Will Hutchins (born Marshall Lowell Hutchason), is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer from the Oklahoma Territory, Tom Brewster, in sixty-nine episodes of the Warner Bros. Western television series Sugarfoot, which aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. Hutchins was discovered by a talent scout for Warner Bros., who changed his name from Marshall Lowell Hutchason to Will Hutchins. The young actor's easygoing manner was compared to Will Rogers, the Oklahoma humorist. His contract led him to guest appearances in Warner Bros. Television programs, such as Conflict. Hutchins was also cast as a guest star on Cheyenne, Bronco, Maverick and 77 Sunset Strip. He had small roles in the Warners movies Bombers B-52, Lafayette Escadrille, and No Time for Sergeants where he screen tested for the lead of Will Stockdale with James Garner playing the psychiatrist. Hutchins leapt to national fame in the lead of Sugarfoot. During the series' run he guest-starred on other Warner Bros shows such as The Roaring 20's, Bronco, and Surfside 6. Warners tried him in the lead of a feature, Young and Eager aka Claudelle Inglish with Diane McBain. He tried another pilot for a series, Howie, that was not picked up and war in the Warners war film with Jeff Chandler, Merrill's Marauders, a picture filmed in the Philippine Islands and Chandler's last acting role. Hutchins guest-starred on Gunsmoke and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. While appearing in a play in Chicago in late 1963, he was flown to Los Angeles to shoot a television pilot for MGM, Take Me to Your Leader, in which Hutchins played a Martian salesman who came to Earth. Though the pilot was not picked up, it led MGM to sign him for Spinout, in which he co-starred as Lt. Tracy Richards ("Dick Tracy" backwards) alongside Elvis Presley. In 1965, Hutchins co-starred with Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates in Monte Hellman's The Shooting. In 1968–1969, Hutchins starred as Dagwood Bumstead in a CBS television version of the comic strip Blondie. He travelled to South Africa to appear in Shangani Patrol. Back in the United States, Hutchins guest-starred on Love, American Style, Emergency!, Chase, Movin' On, The Streets of San Francisco, and The Quest. He was in The Horror at 37,000 Feet, Slumber Party '57, and The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington. He also began appearing in circuses as Patches the Clown.

Diêm Camille

Diêm Camille is an Ivorian actress and screenwriter. In 2022, Diêm played the lead role Nikki, in the dramedy Bad Bitch (2022), a Danish TV series created and co-written by Diêm as well, and directed by Patricia Bbaale Bandak, and produced by the major Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). The series was critically acclaimed and Diêm was nominated for Best Actress and the show for Best Short-Format TV Series at the Danish Film Awards (Robert), as well as making Danish TV history, with the first series in Denmark with an African main cast. In 2023, Diêm started filming the new TV series Alien: Earth (2025) as a main supporting role. The series' showrunner is Noah Hawley for FX/Hulu. This marks Diêm's second major international project, and on top of that being sci-fi, which she is hugely passionate about. Diêm has also been involved in numerous creative projects, notably portraying Abby in the short film Moder (2025), Fatima in You Know Nothing (2025), and Lola in No Place for a Kid (2025).

Jennifer Arnold

Director · Known for Emily in Paris, XO, Kitty, Younger

Jennifer Arnold is an Emmy-nominated director who was raised a drama-geek / skateboard kid in Santa Barbara, California. Her summers were spent living off the grid, without electricity, in the Trinity Alps and Alaskan wilderness with her extended family. She became a world traveler at age sixteen; moved to Kenya at nineteen and continues to work and travel abroad. She credits her story sense to her adventurous upbringing. In the episodic space Arnold has most recently directed "Based on a True Story," "P-Valley" and the pilot for "XO Kitty." which went number one on Netflix within 24 hours. Her other television credits include "Emily in Paris," "American Horror Story," "Younger," "Shameless," "The L-Word: Generation Q," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," and "The Last Man on Earth among others. Her independent and documentary work has premiered at prestigious festivals around the world, including four appearances at Sundance. Arnold's feature documentary A Small Act (HBO) won the Humanitas Prize, a NAMIC Vision Award, and was nominated for the Best Documentary Emmy. Her other documentaries include The Diplomat (ESPN), Tig (Netflix), and Thicker Than Water, about Greg Louganis for ESPN's 30 for 30 shorts series. She has been an advisor at the Sundance labs and CNEX workshops in Asia and traveled to Kazakhstan with American Film Showcase. She attended UCLA's Graduate Film School and studied African History as an undergrad at UCLA and University of Nairobi. She lives in Los Angeles with her wife, the esteemed ASC cinematographer Patti Lee.

Clarence Muse

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clarence Muse (October 14, 1889 – October 13, 1979) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. He was inducted in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973. Muse was the first Negro to "star" in a film. He acted for more than sixty years appearing in more than 150 movies. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Alexander and Mary Muse, he studied at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and received an international law degree in 1911. He was acting in New York by the 1920s, during the Harlem Renaissance with two Harlem theatres, Lincoln Players and Lafayette Players. Muse moved to Chicago for a while, and then moved to Hollywood and performed in Hearts in Dixie (1929), the first all-black movie. For the next fifty years, he worked regularly in minor and major roles. While with the Lafayette Players, Muse worked under the management of producer Robert Levy on productions that helped black actors to gain prominence and respect. In regards to the Lafayette Theatre's staging of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Muse said the play was relevant to black actors and audiences "because, in a way, it was every black man's story. Black men too have been split creatures inhabiting one body.". Muse appeared as an opera singer, minstrel show performer, vaudeville and Broadway actor; he also wrote songs, plays, and sketches. In 1943, he became the first African American Broadway director with Run Little Chillun. Muse was also the co-writer of several notable songs. In 1931, with Leon René and Otis René, Muse wrote "When It's Sleepy Time Down South", also known as "Sleepy Time Down South". The song was sung by Nina Mae McKinney in the movie Safe in Hell (1931), and later became a signature song of Louis Armstrong. He was the major star in Broken Earth (1936), which related the story of a black sharecropper whose son miraculously recovers from fever through the father's fervent prayer. Shot on a farm in the South with nonprofessional actors (except for Muse), the film's early scenes focused in a highly realistic manner on the incredible hardship of black farmers, with plowing scenes. In 1938, Muse co-starred with boxer Joe Louis in Spirit of Youth, the fictional story of a champion boxer which featured an all black cast. Muse and Langston Hughes wrote the script for Way Down South (1939). Muse performed in Broken Strings (1940), as a concert violinist who opposes the desire of his son to play "swing". From 1955-56, Muse was a regular on the weekly TV version of Casablanca, playing Sam the pianist (a part he was under consideration for in the original Warner Brothers film), and in 1959, he played Peter, the Honey Man, in Porgy and Bess. He appeared on Disney's TV miniseries The Swamp Fox. Other film credits include Buck and the Preacher (1972), The World's Greatest Athlete (1973) and as Gazenga's Assistant, "Snapper" in Car Wash (1976). His last acting role was in The Black Stallion (1979).

David Farrar

Cast · Known for The Battle of the River Plate

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Farrar (21 August 1908 – 31 August 1995) was an English stage and film actor, born in Forest Gate, east London. Three of his most notable film roles were leads in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus (1947), The Small Back Room (1949), and Gone to Earth (1950). He retired in 1962. After the death of his wife Irene in 1976, he moved to South Africa to be with their daughter. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Farrar (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

District 9

2009

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.

Africa Miranda

Africa Miranda, is an American actress, singer, producer, author and model of Cape Verdean descent. She is best known for many beauty culture-related television programs and social media programs such as "Facebook Watch" and "#TravelFly Solo Weekend"

Susan Africa

Cast · Known for Batang Quiapo

Susan Africa (born 20 August 1959) is a Filipino actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Olongapo... The Great American Dream (1987), A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016), The Hows of Us (2018), and Sunod (2019), among others.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

2008

Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired craft stays airborne just long enough to make it to the African continent. There the New Yorkers encounter members of their own species for the first time. Africa proves to be a wild place, but Alex and company wonder if it is better than their Central Park home.

Ruan Wessels

Ruan Wessels grew in South Africa along side his sister. At the age of 13 he auditioned for Binnelanders and Hoofemeisie, not only has he become popular in movies he has become popular on Social Media with over 40 000 fans just on Instagram.

Lawrence Joffe

Lawrence Joffe was born in South Africa. He is known for The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019), Black Sails (2014) and Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) He is a freelance journalist in the UK when not acting.

Pagan McGrath

Pagan was born and raised in South Africa, moving to Ireland when she was 11. She graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelors in English and Drama, and then a Masters in Drama and Performance. Pagan started her career in County Wexford Youth Theatre, earning her first professional role in Billy Roche's Lay Me Down Softly, which performed in Wexford, Dublin, Galway and London theatres. Since then Pagan has had a starring role in RTE Storyland's Cuckoo, (which earned her an award for Best Actress in a Drama series in LA Webfest), as well as roles in History Channel's Vikings, and HBO's hit TV series, Penny Dreadful. She continues to work in both theatre and film in London and Ireland.

Jake J. Meniani

Born in Italy and grew up in Africa, France and England Jake J Meniani is a multi cultural artist. As an actor he had a role in the Cannes Film Festival 2013 Award Winner film "Salvo" and recently he played "Federico", a mafia gangster, next to Adrien Brody in the really well known tv serie "Peaky Blinders". With passion of writing in 2011 he wrote and directed an 1 act comedy that it has been selected and produced in famous venues in Paris as La Cartoucherie. He recently founded Excalibur Productions, a film and documentary production company ltd based in the UK and its first short film has been selected at the international MobileFilmFestival for the Human Rights and reached 30.000 views in just one week. Highly skilled in martial art and horse riding.

Anthony Bekenn

Anthony Bekenn was born in East Africa, in the southern part of Tanzania during a cyclone. His father, Michael, was a district officer in the Tanganyika government, the result being that Anthony lived a peripatetic life up to the age of eight. Initially he was home schooled by his mother, Sheila, who had previously been a school teacher in Wolverhampton in the UK. He was subsequently educated in England, attending Tettenhall College, when his parents returned there in the early sixties. He completed high school in Canada, after the family emigrated to Vancouver B.C. in 1967. He completed a degree in History and English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 1974, and then decided to try his hand at acting. He attended the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, which merged with Central School of Speech and Drama in 2006. Anthony's first professional stage appearance was in Victoria B.C. in "Equus". An extensive career has followed, working in television and numerous theatres across Canada, including the Stratford Festival (Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Misanthrope), and the Shaw Festival (1993-2013). His favourite roles include the title role in the CBC film "The Greening Of Ian Elliot", Bluntschli in "Arms and the Man", Gary in "Noises Off", The Archbishop of Rheims in "St Joan", Oxenby in "The Dresser", the Colonel in "Journey's End", Alfred Bridgenorth in "Getting Married", Giles Lacy in "Rebecca", Fancourt Babberley in "Charley's Aunt", and Jesus in the female "Odd Couple" with Sandy Dennis and Stella Stevens. Starting in 1993, Anthony was part of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, appearing in thirty eight productions.

John Sumner

Cast · Known for District 9, King Kong

Having lived in England and South Africa (Cape Town) John arrived in New Zealand with his family at the age of 9. "They totally opposed apartheid, so we left." He started his career in Auckland at 19 performing live on Auckland's nightclub circuit. Within a few months he was appearing in local variety television shows and gaining a solid local following. Within two years he appeared in his first major stage show and shortly after began combining his club and television work with repertory theatre. He gained both popular and critical acclaim playing "Charlie Brown" in "You're a good man Charlie Brown".

David Butler

David Butler was born on 1 March 1960 in South Africa. He was an actor, known for Serenity (2019), Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) and Friend Request (2016). He died on 27 May 2021 in South Africa.

Arune Kital

Arunè Kital is a Lithuanian native who was raised in South Africa until the age of 20 when she relocated to the United States. Attending the AFDA Film School where she won first place as outstanding student for two consecutive years as well as dominating the famous Shakespeare festival in South Africa with first place three years in a row, she ...

Ann Peacock

Writer · Known for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Ann Peacock was born and raised in South Africa where she obtained anundergraduate degree majoring in English Literature and Speech &Dramaand later, a Law degree from the University of Cape Town. After teaching at the University of Cape Town Law Faculty, Ann emigrated with her family to Los Angeles. She won a Prime Emmy Award in 1999 for writing the limited series A Lesson Before Dying.

Louis Hayward

Louis Hayward (1909–1985) was a British actor born in South Africa.

Therese Benade

Cast · Known for Villa Rosa

Therese Benade was born on 9 March 1977 in South Africa. She is an actress and writer, known for Home Affairs (2005), The Piano Player (2002) and Kampterrein (2017).

Frances Hargreaves

Frances Hargreaves (6 January 1955 – 3 March 2017) was South Africa-born Australian actress, who became famous in the 1970s through her long-running role of Marilyn McDonald in soap opera Number 96. Hargreaves was born in South Africa, of British descent and prior to Number 96 she had studied in London, and began acting on the stage in the UK. After marrying Australian actor and singer David Gilchrist, they settled in Australia in 1973. In January 1974, Hargreaves scored the role of rebellious Marilyn McDonald at the last-minute when the original actress, Judy McBurney, had to withdraw due to peritonitis after only six episodes. Hargreaves had to re-shoot all of McBurney's scenes. Hargreaves left the series in June 1975 when she fell pregnant. During a subsequent visit to her native South Africa with newborn son Samuel David, she acted in theatre productions of The Sound of Music and Stop the World I Want to Get Off. She subsequently returned to Australia and resumed her role in Number 96 from April 1977 until its demise later that year. She later appeared in The Young Doctors as Emma Dixon in 1979 and Who Killed Baby Azaria? (1983).