Brett Michael Innes

Born in 1983 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Brett Michael Innes graduated in 2005 as a producer from AFDA, the Oscar-winning South African film school, on a scholarship from the National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa.

He spent three years working as a documentary photographer and filmmaker with various NGO’s and church groups, a position that has seen him and his camera drive from South Africa to South Sudan twice and kayak through the Okavango Delta. He has also done video work in malnutrition camps in Angola as well as excursions to Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Mongolia, Sierra Leone, DRC, Nepal, Liberia, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe, the USA, France, England, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, China, Nigeria and Mexico.

In 2012 he turned his focus to feature films and literature, achieving considerable success in South Africa with 3 feature films in active development with the first starting production later this year. The pilot script for Peace on Paper, a television series that he has written, has been optioned by Spier Films and was ranked by the International Emmy Awards in the Top 10 world wide for the Sir Peter Ustinov Award in 2012.

Innes is author of the bestselling local novel The Story of Racheltjie de Beer which has been translated into Afrikaans and Dutch, hitting top positions on the local and international charts. His second novel, The Reggies Rush, is currently being edited and he has just completed writing his third one. All three novels are in the process of being adapted for film.

Innes is a member of the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship, a training centre started by Sir Richard Branson in Johannesburg, and after a trip that they facilitated to Los Angeles in 2013 to meet the heads of Virgin Produced, Los Angeles based manager Marc Manus added him to his client base.