TECHNOLOGY IS THE NEW RELIGION
Sci-Fi / Post-Apocalyptic
Desperate to save her father, a reluctant farm girl captures a mysterious stranger who may hold the cure, but discovers that she herself may be humanity's last hope.
What is it?
On ZEALOTS, a fractured family, hunted fugitives, and reluctant survivors are forced together in a quarantined, post-apocalyptic South Africa, where a brutal occupying regime and their bio-mechanical monsters rule through fear.
At its heart, the series follows Jade Brown, a young woman with no desire to be a leader, who must transform from a quiet farm girl into the strategist of a rebellion when the occupiers destroy her home. Alongside her estranged sister Siyanda, the haunted mercenary Rush Berger, the feral telekinetic Lily, and Lily’s infamous mother, “The Wild Woman,” Jade becomes part of a makeshift resistance struggling to outwit the regime and survive the evolving horrors of the mZ virus.
It’s a survival epic about connection in a world built on disconnection-where every alliance carries risk, every victory demands sacrifice, and hope itself becomes the most dangerous weapon. As monsters mutate, loyalties fracture, and betrayals cut deep, ZEALOTS asks whether people can hold onto their humanity when the world around them is determined to strip it away.
SCI-FI / HORROR
A POST-APARTHEID TEEN HORROR
Introduction
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Pilot
The pilot follows a group of kids of colour as they navigate the dangers of a newly “integrated” white suburb in the Vaal Triangle. In 1995, a bell-shaped anomaly over a high school and a bathroom panic, blamed on “Pinky Pinky”, seeded a decades-long haunting. Four misfit teens stumble onto the truth: the “monster” is tied to a missing girl, the town’s rituals made while a new, visceral phenomenon, the Bellmouth, begins infecting people who carry what the town refuses to say.
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Mid-Season
Years later, the estranged friends reunite at a school gathering, witness their first Bellmouth, and, pushed by Brandon, rattled by Orin’s night terrors, are dragged back to Grasmere to face the past. Across the season, folklore, initiation rites, and white supremacy collide as the group uncovers how authority weaponises legend to police girls, silence witnesses, and bury testimony. The engine blends monster-of-the-week with serialised revelation, each episode peeling back a layer of the town’s ritual machinery and the personal costs of speaking out.
MONSTER OF THE WEEK
DIE GLOCKE
PINKY PINKY
THE LEVANT
BELLMOUTHS
Show Engine
The relationships between the kids, their loyalty, jealousy, crushes, betrayals, and forgiveness are the show’s primary engine. The engine is their fragile but powerful friendships, tested each episode by inner conflicts with discrimination, religion, drugs, abuse, and the supernatural “villains” that embody their fears.
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After a bell-shaped UFO blackens the sky over Vaal High, four misfit kids bunk school only to uncover that their new town is rife with rituals and hidden secrets
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Grasmere is a supernatural horror series that follows four childhood friends as they encounter a mysterious creature known as Pinky-Pinky during their last adventure in the hills of Lawley. Ten years later, the protagonist, Brandon, discovers a viral video featuring schoolgirls being interviewed about their encounter with Pinky-Pinky, which inspires him to reunite the gang.
However, upon their return to town, they discover that the urban myth of Pinky-Pinky has grown into something much more sinister, involving cult rituals and a town harbouring a dark secret. The group's faith, friendship, and bravery are put to the test as they fight against the forces of evil in an epic final act.
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The townsfolk are harbouring a secret about the urban myth, and some may be involved in cult rituals. Father Michael is a close friend and the only person they can trust, but he is also a changed man, bordering on manic, a stark contrast to the strong man we have come to know. During this time, we go back and forth between the past and the present as both storylines intertwine and come to a head in an epic final act that involves a tale about faith, friendship, good/evil, night terrors, monsters, and the occult.
Crime Thriller
He’s a poaching kingpin, but she’s the rain queen.
Synopsis
Black Mane is a tale of a powerful poaching syndicate and the intelligence agencies determined to stop them. The series follows Robert Vermaak, an ambitious poacher who rises through the ranks of "the Ring" in pursuit of becoming the sole exporter of illegal wildlife products in Africa. The story is a complex exploration of Vermaak's inner demons as he grapples with the immorality of his actions and his drive for success.
The N.E.S.T tasked with to stopping "the Ring", mission's complicated when a PLA peacekeeper Shang-Li is sent undercover to infiltrate Robert's organization, and who represents the new face of Chinese activism determined to change China's broken image in wildlife trafficking. Alongside Shang-Li is a determined INTERPOL agent and head of the task force NEST Jackie Van de Beek, who is equally dedicated to taking down "the Ring." The pursuit of the syndicate takes the characters on a thrilling journey across the African continent and Europe.
“This world's an ugly place. It wasn't made with you in mind. It's over now. Go back to your village. Forget about the world”
Robert Vickers
“Queen Modjaji attracts even Kings from afar to appease her. I am the only woman you'll meet with honour. I am respected, and I have capabilities.”
Rhodesia
“While we can control what happens within our borders, we have no authority over international trade in these species.”
— Reeva Goodall
“That's above your pay grade, Robert. I'll be in Pemba to lay eyes on the exotic myself. Interpol just issued a Red Notice. Your name, your face - painted on every wall from here to Dar es Salaam.”
— Rebah
“You all think China is the only market for Elephant tusks and Rhino horn. But this is an outdated stereotype. Today, China is listening to the voices of its new generation and has taken steps to fight this scourge alongside, BORN FREE, CITES, SANPARKS and VETPAW.”
— WEI-LI
“ When the news broke about the girl all hell broke loose. We're getting pressure from 1000 tribes headsmen. International pressure from Swaziland, Lesotho, even the Zulu King came out condemning the kidnapping.”
— Jackie Van Der Beek
Logline
A poaching kingpin must confront the morality of his work when he unwittingly encounters the hereditary Rain Queen of the Balobedu people.