Farrarmere resident Charles Singleton won a South African Film and Television Award (Safta).
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This event was the 12th annual awards ceremony and took place at the Sun City Superbowl on March 22.
The 26-year-old won the award for Best Achievement in Sound Design in a Feature Film.
Singleton is a sound engineer and said his duties included what he calls‘boom-swinging’, which involves controlling the microphone, post-production editing, working with sound effects and sound design.
“I just got tagged into it,” he said.
He also said that this was the first film he has worked on and said he “never even thought about the
award”.
He conceded, however, that he did not work alone.
“I worked with a company called Sound and Motion, and working with those guys was great,” he said.
He admitted that when the film was done, he felt proud of the end product.
The film’s title is From a House on Willow Street.
Singleton said the film is classified as a horror.
He said he couldn’t have won the award without his business partner, Alistair Orr, who wrote and directed
the movie.
The plot is about a group of criminals who realise one character has access to diamonds and then kidnap the man’s daughter for ransom.
When they do not receive a response from her parents, the criminals soon realise something about the girl is suspicious.
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