David Wicht
David Wicht is a film producer and financier based in Cape Town, South Africa. David is South Africa’s leading producer of films for the US. Regular clients include Warner Bros, Universal, Disney, HBO & Showtime..

He started in the film industry as a writer and director of feature films, television drama, documentaries, commercials and music videos. His first screenplay THE NATIVE WHO CAUSED ALL THE TROUBLE went on to become an award-winning stage play. His last feature as writer/director, WINDPRINTS, with John Hurt and Sean Bean, was nominated for Best Script, Best Director and Best Film in SA and enjoyed much critical success.

David left for the UK during the 1980’s where he stopped writing and directing to concentrate on film production and financing. To that end he completed an MBA at one of the UK's top business schools. Since his return to South Africa he has been involved in a large body of work.

David excels in producing films for the US market, and enjoys excellent relations with all the major networks and studios, completion bonders, insurers and EU funds.

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Year:
2006

Movie:
Goodbye Bafana

Company:
Banana Films

Director:
Bille August

Producer:
David Wicht

Writers:
Greg Latter
Bille August
Starring:
Joseph Feinnes
Diane Kruger
Dennis Haysbert

Producers:
JeanLuc Van Damme
Ilann Girard
Andro Steinborn
Livio Negri

Synopsis:
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.



Year:
2005

Movie:
The Breed

Company:
Film Afrika Worldwide

Director:
Nicholas Mastandrea

Producer:
David Wicht

Writers:
Bob Conte
Peter Martin Wortmann
Starring:
Michelle Rodriguez
Taryn Manning
Hill Harper
Eric Lively
Oliver Hudson

Producers:
Wes Craven, Marianne Maddalena
David Lancaster, Hal Sadoff
Karen Vundla, Vlokkie Gordon

Synopsis:
A Wes Craven presentation. The Breed is about a group of five college kids who are forced to match wits with unwelcoming residents when they fly to a "deserted" island for a party weekend.


Year:
2005
Movie:
Duma

Company:
Warner Bros.

Director:
Carroll Ballard

Producer:
David Wicht

Writers:
Carol Hopcraft
Xan Hopcraft
Starring:
Alex Michaletos
Hope Davis
Campbell Scott
Eamonn Walker
Jennifer Steyn
Producers:
Gaylord, John Wells, Hunt Lowry
Kristin Harms, Stacy Cohen
E.K. Gaylord II, Doug Claybourne
Vlokkie Gordon

Synopsis:
"Duma" is the powerful adventure tale of an unbreakable bond of friendship between a cheetah and an intrepid young boy."


Year:
2005
TV Movie:
Spring Break Shark Attack
 

Company:
CBS (USA)

Director:
Paul Shapiro

Producer:
David Wicht

Writers:
James LaRosa
Starring:
Shannon Lucio
Riley Smith
Justin Baldoni
Kathy Baker
Bryan Brown
Producers:
Frank von Zerneck Robert Sertner
JJ Jamieson, Peter Sadowski
Leslie Belzberg, Randy Sutter & Nina Heyns

Synopsis:
An exciting made for TV thriller about the invasion of killer sharks on the Florida coast as a beach full of co-eds enjoy their spring break.


Year:
2005
TV Movie:
The Poseidon Adventure

Company:
Hallmark Entertainment

Director:
John Putch

Producer:
David Wicht

Cinematographer:
Ross Berryman

Starring:
Adam Baldwin
Steve Guttenberg
Bryan Brown

Producers:
Steve Squillante
Mary Church
Frank Q Dobbs
Nina Heyns

Synopsis:
A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.


Year:
2005
TV Movie:
Supernova

Company:
Hallmark Entertainment

Director:
John Harrison

Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Steven H Berman

Starring:
Luke Perry
Peter Fonda
Tia Carrere

Producers:
Leanne Moore
Theresa Ryan
Adam Douglas
Stephanie Meurer

Synopsis:
A scientific possibility becomes a terrifying reality when the most powerful force in the universe threatens to hurtle home.


Year:
2005
Movie:
Slipstream

Company:
Motion Picture Corporation of America

Director:
David van Eyssen

Producer:
David Wicht

Writers:
Louis Morneau
Phillip Badger

Starring:
Sean Astin
Vinnie Jones
Ivana Milicevic

Producers:
Sean Astin
David Bixler
Frank Hübner

Brad Krevoy

Synopsis:
SARAH TANNER is an FBI agent charged with keeping a scientist, STUART CONWAY, who works at a government research facility under surveillance.


Year:
2005
TV Movie:
Zenon Z3

Company:
Disney

Director:
Steve Rash

Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Stu Krieger

Starring:
Kirsten Storms, Lauren Maltby
Phumi Mthembu, Alyson Morgan Stuart Pankin, Holly Fulger

Nathan Anderson,

Producers:
Suzanne DePasse
Suzanne Coston
Chris Morgan

Synopsis:
In this 3rd installment of the series Zenon attends a rock concert on the moon, and has to help defend the planet against unscrupulous developers.


Year:
2004
Movie:
Blast

Company:
Motion Picture Corporation of America

Director:
Tony Hickox

Executive Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Steven E. de Souza

Starring:
Eddie Griffin
Vinnie Jones
Breckin Meyer
Vivica A. Fox
Shaggy

Producers:
Gerhard Schmidt
Brad Krevoy
David Lancaster
Klaus Rettig

Synopsis:
A terrorist posing as environmentalist hijacks an oil rig off the coast of California with the intent of detonating an electromagnetic bomb over the US.


Year:
2004
Movie:
Dracula 3000

Company:
Film Afrika Worldwide

Director:
Darrell Roodt

Producer:
David Wicht

Writers:
Darrell Roodt
Ivan Millborrow

Starring:
Casper van Dien
Erika Eleniak
Coolio
Tiny Lister
Alexandra Kamp

Producers:
Brad Krevoy
Frank Huebner
David Lancaster
James Atherton

Synopsis:
One thousand years into the future, and somewhere in the far reaches of outer space, a terrifying legend lives on.


Year:
2004
Movie:
In My Country

Company:
Phoenix Pictures

Director:
John Boorman

Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Ann Peacock

Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson
Juliette Binoche
Brendan Gleeson
Menzi Ngubane
Nick Boraine

Producers:
Robert Chartoff & Mike Medavoy
Lynn Hendee & Kieran Corrigan

Synopsis:
It is a story charting the unfathomable depths of human cruelty and the redeeming power of forgiveness and love.


Year:
2003
TV Movie:
Consequence

Company:
HBO

Director:
Anthony Hickox

Producer:
David Wicht

Writers:
Hawk Ostby
Mark Fergus

Starring:
Armand Assante
Rick Schroder
Lola Glaudini

Producers:
Brad Krevoy
Frank Hubner
David Lancaster
Adam Richman

Synopsis:
"Consequence" sticks Asante in the center of a convoluted noirish mystery-suspense-drama about a man who does an identity switch to collect insurance money and finds himself with a small army of bad guys on his tail.


Year:
2002
Movie:
Pavement

Company:
Motion Picture Corporation of Europe

Director:
Darrell Roodt

Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Charles Hansen

Starring:
Lauren Holly, Robert Patrick, Barry Henley

Producers:
Brad Krevoy
Frank Hubner
David Lancaster
Adam Richman

Synopsis:
Pavement is a suspenseful action thriller about a female homicide detective who enlists the aid of a wilderness tracker in her search. for a devious serial killer.


Year:
2002
Movie:
Borderline

Company:
Motion Picture Corporation of America

Director:
Evelyn Purcell

Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
David Loucka

Starring:
Gina Gershon , Micheal Biehn , Sean Patrick Flanery

Producers:
Brad Krevoy
Frank Hubner
David Lancaster

Synopsis:
Psychiatrist Dr. Lila Colleti is divorcing her husband and is devastated when he wins custody of their two little girls.


Year:
2002
TV Movie:
The Piano Player

Company:
Bauer Martinez Studios

Director:
Jean Pierre Roux

Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Brad Mirman

Starring:
Christopher Lambert
Dennis Hopper
Diane Kruger

Producers:
Philippe Martinez
Andreas Klein
Vlokkie Kuhne

Synopsis:
Moody action feature, with the final showdown set against the desert landscape of Africa.


Year:
2002
TV Series:
Scout's Safari

Company:
Discovery Kids

Directors:
Ron Oliver, Steve Markowitz, Ken Kaplan

Producer:
David Wicht

Writers:
Thomas Chehak
Thomas W. Lynch

Starring:
Anastasia Baranova
Freedom Hadebe
Chantell Stander
Ashley Dowds

Producers:
Jessica Klein
Thomas W. Lynch
Thomas Chehak

Synopsis:
Scout is 12-years-old and happily growing up in New York City. Just as she is about to become a teenager and enter the exciting world of adolescence, her father decides to move her to an isolated part of South Africa. Scout's mother and her step-father are running a safari lodge outside Johannesburg. Scout's new environment is totally alien to the sophistication of New York. Nature will challenge Scout to learn the truly important things in life.


Year:
2002
Movie:
Promised Land

Company:
Film Afrika

Director:
Jason Xenopolous

Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Jason Xenopolous

Starring:
Nick Boraine
Yvonne van den Bergh
Daniel Browde

Producers:
David Wicht
Moonyeenn Lee

Synopsis:
From the cosmopolitan streets of London to the blood-soaked soil of Africa one man must journey beyond the fragments of his forgotten childhood to free himself and an entire nation from their suicidal past.


Year:
2001
Movie:
Styx

Company:
Film Afrika Worldwide

Director:
Alex Wright

Line Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
George Ferris

Starring:
Peter Weller
Bryan Brown
Angus MacFadyen

Producers:
Steve Beswick
David Bixler
Chris Webster
Julia Verdin

Synopsis:
A year and a half after taking part in a botched robbery attempt, Nelson Reedy (PETER WELLER) is content to put the past behine him and live the legitimate life. His pursuit of the idyllic life comes to a screeching halt when his gambaholic brother, Mike (ANGUS MacFADYEN), finds himself in serious debt and persuades his brother to take part in another heist as a way out.


Year:
2001
TV Movie:
Diamond Humters

Company:
Global Entertainment Productions

Director:
Dennis Berry

Line Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Carmen Culver

Starring:
Alyssa Milano
Sean Patrick Flanery

Roy Scheider

Michael Easton
Jolene Blalock

Producers:
Guido De Angelis,
Jonas Bauer, Steven North

Synopsis:
Diamond Hunters traces the torrid fortunes of a family unable to forgive and forget. Johnny (Sean Patrick Flanery), a successful diamond hunter, gets sucked back into a family that had been his own until the patriarch, Jacob van der Byl (Roy Scheider), abandoned him 20 years ago.


Year:
2000
Movie:
Second Skin

Company:
Alliance Atlantis Communications

Director:
Darryl Roodt

Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
John Lau

Starring:
Natasha Henstridge
Angus Macfadyen
Peter Fonda

Producers:
Marc Forby
David Lancaster
Jeff Morton

Synopsis:
A man opens a small-town bookstore in order to escape his connections to a mobster, but is reluctantly drawn back to his dark past by a mysterious woman.


Year:
1998
TV Movie:
Only Love

Company:
Hallmark Entertainment

Director:
John Erman

Line Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Gerald Christopher

Starring:
Marisa Tomei
Rob Morrow

Producers:
Robert Halmi Senior (Executive)
Gerrit Van der meer

Synopsis:
Told in flashback, a successful neurosurgeon (Rob Morrow) is unexpectedly called upon to treat his former fiancee (Mathilda May) who is dying from a brain tumor. The film then flashes back 15 years to when the couple first met as physicians on an African expedition


Year:
1998
TV Movie:
Tarzan and the Lost City

Company:
Village Roadshow Pictures

Director:
Carl Schenkel

Line Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Bayard Johnson

Starring:
Casper van Dien
Jane March
Steve Waddington

Producers:
Stanley Canter
Michael Lake
Dieter Geissler
Greg Coote,

Lawrence Mortorff, Kurt Silberschneider,

Peter Ziegler

Synopsis:
John Greystoke aka Tarzan (Casper van Dien) receives word from the jungle that his homeland is under threat.


Year:
1998
Movie:
The Last Contract

Company:
TV4 Sweden

Director:
Kjell Sundvall

Line Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Mats Arehn

Starring:
Mikael Persbrandt
Michael Kitchen
Pernilla August

Producer:
Borje Hanson

Synopsis:
A thriller about the events in Sweden and around the world, leading to the murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme February 28, 1986.


Year:
1997
Movie:
Chasing the Wind

Company:
Film Afrika

Director:
Nina Companeez

Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Nina Companeez

Starring:
Bernard Giraudeau
Dominique Reymond

Producers:
Mag Bodard
Alain Bessaudou

Synopsis:
Charlie, a good-looking man in his 40’s is a shrewd and unscrupulous businessman. Charlie comes to realize that his life, which he had considered a battlefield, without ever making room for his feelings, has only consisted of chasing the wind.


Year:
1997
TV Movie:
Mandela & DeKlerk

Company:
Showtime (USA)

Director:
Joseph Sargent

Line Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Richard Wesley

Starring:
Sidney Poitier
Michael Caine

Producers:
Bernie Sofronski
Cedric Scott (Co-Producer)

Synopsis:
Mandela & De Klerk recreates the series of remarkable meetings in which two successive leaders of white-ruled South Africa, first P.W. Botha and then Frederik De Klerk, negotiated with a prisoner the fate of the entire nation.


Year:
1996
TV Movie:
Inside

Company:
Logo Entertainment

Director:
Arthur Penn

Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Bima Stagg

Starring:
Eric Stoltz
Nigel Hawthorne
Louis Gossett Jr.

Producers:
Hilley Elkins

Synopsis:
Marty Strydom (ERIC STOLTZ), an idealistic university professor from a prominent white South African family, is accused of conspiring to subvert the racist regime after attending an Amnesty International concert in Zimbabwe.


Year:
1996
TV Movie:
The White Lioness

Company:
Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI)

Director:
Per Berglund

Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
Lars Björkman

Starring:
Rolf Lassgård
Charlotte Sieling

Producers:
Gertrud Bengtsson
Katinka Faragó

Synopsis:
This is a drama about an assassination conspiracy that starts in South Africa that finds its way to a countryside police detective. A woman is found murdered in a rural Swedish house. The murder is not the mystery, the target of the assassin is.


Year:
1990
Movie:
Windprints

Company:
Film Afrika Worldwide
Virgin Vision

Director:
David Wicht

Executive Producer:
David Wicht

Writer:
David Wicht

Starring:
John Hurt
Sean Bean

Producers:
Michael L. Games
Christina Roberts

Synopsis:
WindPrints is the story of a young South African trying to come to terms with his role in a society going through tremendous social and political changes.