GUEST S3 Ep 04 Kweku Mandela Talks Storytelling, Producing Bang Bang Club, Foundation w Charlize Theron & Creating Journey together

Kweku Mandela is a director, producer, philanthropist, and close friend. I had the pleasure of getting to know Kweku through working for him on the set of Journey is the Destination, where we spent months filming, and telling the incredible story of Dan Eldon. Since then, Kweku has continued to be an influence and inspiration in my life, as well as the lives of many, many others. His company Out Of Africa Entertainment is one of the largest film and Television production companies in Africa having recently completed production on Madiba, Maze Runner 3, and The Red Sea Diving Resort. Kweku Executive Produced the acclaimed Novel “The Bang Bang Club” into a feature film, which was released in early 2011. Kweku is currently a partner in two new production companies one being Romulus Entertainment a production finance outfit based in New York and two Dang Entertainment a partnership between Kweku and his long-time collaborator Nabil Elderkin based in LA. ​In mid-2009 he co-founded Africa Rising Foundation with his cousin Ndaba Mandela and their dream of changing Africa’s image and fostering young leadership and partnerships around the world was started. He supports the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety and the Long Short Walk, a world walk for road safety, in memory of his 13-year old cousin Zenani Mandela who was killed in a crash 2 years ago. ​He’s also on the board of Global Citizen , Pioneer Works and Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project and a Trustee of House of Mandela. ​Kweku latest projects include producing Margot Robbie film Dreamland and Christopher Waltz directorial debut Georgetown along with starting GenEndIt with Charlize Theron a collective of HIV/AIDS organisation committed to seeing the end of AIDS in our lifetime. Kweku thank you so much for your time in this podcast, but as well as in my life. Your influence has been immense and my career has depth and meaning because of people like you.  Thank you to our sponsors, use the below codes - - Sofaworx - Thank you to Sofaworx for designing the most incredible studio (all furniture Sofaworx items) Use code "Storytime10" to get 10% OFF all your next furniture purchases at - https://sofaworx.co.za/ - Truth Coffee - Use code "Storytime10" to get 10% OFF all coffee purchases at - https://za.truth.coffee/ - Manscaped - Use code "Blamejosh" to get 20% OFF all Manscaped purchases as well as FREE SHIPPING at - https://za.manscaped.com/ - Franklees - Use code "FrankleesMatching" to get 20% OFF all purchases (full price items only, one discount offer per shopper) Email signup and get an ADDITIONAL 15% OFF discount - https://franklees.co.za/ Don't forget to like and subscribe for weekly episodes with new guests Follow for more - Joshua Eady - https://www.instagram.com/justblamejosh/ Kweku Mandela - https://www.instagram.com/kwekumandela/ StoryTime - https://www.instagram.com/_storytime_...