Film and Documentary Making

Wesley Pepper chats to award winning Filmmaker, Documentarian and Editor, Ikaye Masisi. This is a podcast where we talk art and art processes. Masisi also looks at the impact of COVID-19 on the film industry.TranscriptWesley: [00:00:00] Everybody Wesley pepper and you're tuned into my podcast. Wesley Pepper’s art Lexica, which is brought to you by spudcaster and baobulb. Yeah. Thanks everybody for tuning in. Uh, welcome to all my new and returning. Listeners, uh, greetings to you all, you know, I hope you guys enjoyed last week's or the last two episodes we had.[00:00:29] Um, I thought that was really insightful. Thanks to Wilson Ngoni for coming through and blessing us with these time. You know, we really uncovered his entire, uh, Really covered his entire story. As an artist, you look at his work, his processes, and even his book. Uh, and just to recap, you guys are still interested in purchasing his book.[00:00:49] Remember you can find it on his Facebook page or use WhatsApp number. Um, I don't have the number in front of me, but I know it's on last week's episode, so yeah, you can have a. Or, I mean, if you really, if you can't find that, just holler at me and I'll, you know, I'll forward it through to you. Yeah. I mean, uh, my thanks again to Wilson once again, man.[00:01:07] Um, as I said I really enjoyed that man. And, um, today's episode. Um, we taking another. Rather, I'm talking to another very, very interesting brother. I'm talking to Ikaye Masisi. He is an editor and a filmmaker. Um, he also does a lot of documentaries. He works on a whole host of, uh, projects, you know, uh, shows that I'm sure some of you are probably are familiar with his work.[00:01:29] You just didn't know that he was behind the editing of it. He's also quite a, uh, award-winning brother, um, as recently. Um, well, early on this year, he actually won another editing, um, award. Um, and, uh, we definitely gonna be covering that. We're gonna be covering, we're gonna be talking about these processes.[00:01:46] Of course, you know, how we choose his subject matter, because if you know something about Ikaye’s work, you know, um, he does documentaries on really the, on and he does projects on things that personally, that I'm very, very interested in, you know, um, I remember watching one of these documentaries called I’m a Poet not too long ago and I loved it and I really loved it.[00:02:05] I loved his approach. I loved his technique and everything. And as you guys know, like I'm really, really passionate and I've got an interesting history where the, um, with the spoken word. Um, so we're going to be covering a bit of all of that today, you know, Talk about these awards and his current and future projects.[00:02:22] So stay tuned for that. That should be on about, uh, that should be a lot of fun. Um, let's just remember that the art giveaway is well, it's actually always up for grabs, you know, even though, um, um, somebody might win it. I'll just create another one because the thing is, I just want to attract more listeners and I do want to give away more art so that you have a, so if you want an art to receive any of the artwork, you know, just like, and subscribe to this, um, um, Episode, you know, and I'll choose a name at random and you will win yourself, original artwork done by yours truly.[00:02:51] And, uh, stay tuned for that. Um, or rather I'll talk to you at the end of the interview, um, with regards to future episodes and a bunch of other things brewing on the horizon, you know, there's always, it's always a lot of that. Yeah, man. And, um, I'll chat to you at the end of today's episode with regards to that, but for now, you know, guys, uh, enjoy today's episode, with Ikaye, um, I've actually been looking to get hold of him for some time.[00:03:16] Now it's just a