Grace Harrison is a passionate visual story-teller, with a BA(hons) degree in Design & Art Direction, She has been producing commercial photography and film content for TV, web and print for 10 years, having come from 5 years’ experience in the Magazine Industry as an Art Director.

After leaving the print in 2010, she worked under her mentor Daron Chatz for 5 years, moving her experience in lighting and composition from photography into the realm of film by starting with short-form promotional film products, music videos as a director, editor

In 2016, she broke into the TV industry and landed her first Director of Photography role on Hustle, a 26-episode 1-hour-long TV series for SA’s ETV, directed by Jahmil Qubeka. In 2017, Grace worked as Camera-operator on a 10-episode series for Via called Veld Tot Vurk , before going on to DOP and operate camera and pull focus on SABC’s Telenovella Keeping Score.

Grace has since worked on a number of projects for both web and TV, also choosing to focus more on the documentary side of film in the last 3 years. She has a passion for story telling and expressing meaningful stories that entertain and educate audiences.

Grace has an eye for detail and a passion for emotionally connecting to her audiences.She believes strongly in the power of film to touch and inspire minds and hearts, actively seeks out projects that have potential to change the world for the better.

“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.” Baba Dioum

Daron Chatz is a creative who is compelled with the art of visual expression in all forms. His skills range from photography and film to creative directing, post production and inventing.

He began his career in the late 80’s in the South African film industry, he then went on to assist Nick Boutlon in the professional photography industry where he received a wealth of knowledge from an exceptional teacher. A few years later Daron went on to start his own photography career.

Daron did well to establish himself as a top fashion, décor and advertising photographer in South Africa and abroad. The exciting expansion from there was back into motion picture lighting and then into filming, and soon daron was a well-respected DOP. He was then approached and offered his first TV commercials and so began his journey as a director.

Daron produced and directed commercials, TV and film, which then saw the birth of his JHB based production and post production companies. Around this time, Daron mentored now well-known and acclaimed film maker Jahmil XT Qubeka into the industry and they became business partners. Daron went on to service industry leaders across both television and film. At the same time, he was growing as a photographer.

His passion for storytelling and his sensitive attention to detail is very apparent in all of his work. Daron has an advanced technical understanding and his finger on the pulse of technology in this rapidly growing landscape. His combined creative and technical abilities make him very versatile and quite unique.

Aside from servicing ad agencies, magazines, tourism bodies, hotel groups, film distributors, corporates and TV channels he has a massive interest in giving back and contributing to the greater good. In his own words “I am blessed with an abundance of talents and skills, and absolutely see this as an opportunity to touch people’s hearts and make a difference.”

Daron now has a major focus on long form content and has directed and shot various multi part series projects. “Since I was a child I have always wanted to be a long form story teller, and the opportunity to reach massive global audiences have opened up in such a beautiful way that my time is now for doccies, doccie series and films”, states Daron.