Rising South African Director Thati Pele ‘Braced’ for Breakout With Big-Screen Debut (EXCLUSIVE)

Rising South African filmmaker Thati Pele, the director of the hit Netflix teen drama “Blood and Water” and the streamer’s new original series “Savage Beauty,” is preparing her first feature film, which will be produced by the team behind the Oscar-shortlisted LGBTQ drama “The Wound.” “Brace Yourself” unspools on a failed romantic island getaway, where straitlaced orthodontist Dr. Shaloba Molefe decides to kidnap her unravelling family and won’t let them leave until they love her again. The film is produced by Cait Pansegrouw and Elias Ribeiro for Urucu Media (“The Wound,” “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection”), in… Read Full Article