Through The Pane
Thriller, 2024
FILM PRODUCTION DETAILS
Graduation Festival
AFDA Study Year: 3rd year
Genre: Thriller
Running Time: 12
Rating: PG
Viewing Restriction: 16
Through the Pane is a psychological thriller centered on a successful yet creatively stifled writer who becomes the target of her maid’s obsessive fixation. As the protagonist struggles with a looming deadline, she begins to notice increasingly sinister occurrences that disrupt her work and personal life. The central conflict dramatizes the tension between professional success and personal insecurity, with the maid representing unfulfilled ambition and dangerous envy. This tension culminates in a chilling confrontation that explores the fragility of identity when success is viewed through the lens of external validation.
CAST
Zibusiso Khumalo - Snenhlanhla Gumede
CREW
Writer - Hannah van Niekerk & Khethelo Nxumalo
Director - Uminathi Nyaba
Executive Producer - Uminathi Nyaba & Philile Vilakazi
Cinematographer - Minenhle Gwamanda
Costume, Make-up and Styling - Philile Vilakazi
Editor - Sanele Makhanya
Visual Effects - Sanele Makhanya
Colourist/Grader - Minenhle Gwamanda
