Steven Markovitz

Steven Markovitz (born 1965) is a South African film and television producer. He has produced, co-produced and executive-produced features, documentaries and short films including the acclaimed "Boy called Twist", "Behind the Rainbow" and "Viva Riva!". Since 2007, he has worked all over Africa producing documentary series and fiction. He has an associate office in Kinshasa,Democratic Republic of the Congo and works with production offices across Africa.

Markovitz began his career in 1992 and co-founded the production company Big World Cinema [1] in Cape Town in 1994. In 1999, he produced the short film "Husk", which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival; followed by the award winning "It's My Life", the intimate portrait of Zackie Achmat, South Africa's leading AIDS activist in 2001. "The Tap" won Best South African Documentary at the Apollo Film Festival 2003 and Best Production of the Year at the Stone Awards, South Africa.

Markovitz co-produced the Academy Award-nominated short film "Inja" ("Dog") in 2003; followed by the award winning South African-Canadian feature film "Proteus" directed by John Greyson and Jack Lewis which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2003 and Berlin; "Raya", a short film part of the "Mama Afrika" series, which was theatrically released in the USA in 2003; and the TV movie Crossing the Line by award-winning director Brian Tilley.

In 2005 he was the executive producer of the feature film Boy called Twist directed by Tim Greene, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. This was followed by the animated short film "Beyond Freedom", which screened at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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