Worldwide Head of Production, for Anant Singh’s company Videovision Entertainment has produced more than sixty television projects and over twenty feature films.

Among her motion picture credits as producer are Mama Jack, starring Leon Schuster, South Africa’s most successful box office performing filmmaker and artist, the Best Foreign Film Academy Award® nominated motion picture, Yesterday (2005), starring Leleti Khumalo (Sarafina!), the record-breaking box office performers Mama Jack and Mr. Bones, with South Africa’s number one boxoffice star, Leon Schuster, The Long Run, starring Armin Muehler-Stahl (Shine), The Theory of Flight, starring Academy Award® winning Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter, Bravo Two Zero, (as co-producer), a BBC co-production starring Sean Bean, based on Andy McNab’s best-selling book of the same title. She is also producer on More Than Just A Game, the docu-drama that explores the organised soccer league that existed at the Robben Island prison where South African political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela were imprisoned.

Helena executive produced the multiple award-winning comedy drama, Get Real, a British Screen and Graphite Films co-production, which garnered the Best Picture award at the British Film Festival of Dinard in France 1998: Trophee Hitchcock D'OR, Trophee Hitchcock Audience Award, and the Trophee Hitchcock Kodak cinematography Award.

Helena also exec-produced the motion picture Waati, directed by Palme D’Or winner Souleymane Cisse, The Mangler, directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist), Katinka Heyns’ Paljas, which was accepted as South Africa’s first official entry in the 1998 academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film Category and Darrell James Roodt’s Sarafina! starring Whoopi Goldberg, which received a New York Christopher Award.

Helena’s associate producer credits include Face, starring Ray Winstone (Nil by Mouth), directed by Antonia Bird (Priest), Darrell James Roodt’s Cry, the Beloved Country, starring James Earl Jones and Richard Harris, which garnered the New York Christopher Award Winner, Dangerous Ground, starring Elizabeth Hurley and Ice Cube for New Line Cinema.

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