Occupation Producer Role Film producer Name Shukri Toefy | Website www.shukritoefy.com Years active 2006–present | |
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Born 1 April 1984 (age 40) ( 1984-04-01 ) | ||
How the playing field for production agency s has changed shukri toefy
Shukri Toefy is an entrepreneur, film producer and chief executive officer at Fort. He is currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Contents
- How the playing field for production agency s has changed shukri toefy
- Shukri Toefy Entrepreneur Film Producer CEO
- Early life
- Career
- The Rainmakers Journal
- Unwritten A Visual Journey of Nepal
- Film
- Commercials
- Television
- Music videos
- Other recognition
- References
Shukri Toefy : Entrepreneur, Film Producer & CEO
Early life
Shukri Toefy was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 1 April 1984. He attended the University of Cape Town in 2003 where he later graduated with degrees (BA) in Law and Politics.
Career
While a student at the University of Cape Town, Shukri Toefy met Amr Singh. The two became friends and, after choosing to miss their graduation ceremony to take a job filming in Dublin, Ireland, went on to found Fort (formerly West Fort, then The Fort, before a final name change in 2017) together, where he now serves as co-founder and chief executive officer.
Shukri Toefy has served on a number of boards, including The Cape Film Commission, Sizalo Investment Group and Kinza.org, and has presented at numerous events locally and abroad on a range of topics including entrepreneurship, leadership, strategic brand communication and shared knowledge.
The Rainmakers Journal
Shukri Toefy is the founder and narrator of the Rainmakers Journal, a thought leadership platform that, through a series of projects, hopes to help people unlock the value of shared knowledge. Current projects include Unwritten: A Visual Journey of Nepal, an award-winning arthouse short film, and a series of workshops designed around the importance of journaling as a method of unlocking hidden treasures, setting goals and the value of shared knowledge.
Unwritten: A Visual Journey of Nepal
In 2014, filming began on Unwritten: A Visual Journey of Nepal, an arthouse short film shot in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal only months before the Ghorka earthquakes. A film project started with Fort co-founder Amr Singh, under the Rainmakers Journal thought leadership platform, is a powerful cinematic account of Toefy's journey across the Kathmandu Valley as told by the pages of his journal. Along his journey he meets with artisans, musicians, spiritualists, scholars, and survivors of a bygone era where the knowledge handed down from generation to generation was seen as a rite of passage, in search of lessons he can apply to his own life.
The short has since caught the attention of various international film festivals, including the Amsterdam Film Festival, where it won the Van Gogh award for best World Cinema: Documentary Feature, the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards (HIIDA) where it won Best Cultural Short, as well as official selections at Rome Film Festival, Balinale and Largo Film Festival.