Sipho Nuse is a creative filmmaker, casting director, photographer, and theatre-maker, born in 1997 and raised in Cape Town, South Africa on the outskirts of Nyanga East. Sipho is currently pursuing Honors in Media Innovation and Leadership studies at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
He started practicing art at a very young age while attending Walter Teka Primary School, he was part of the school’s performing arts program – where he participated in drama, dance, and marimba band.
In 2012, he joined the Western Cape’s Mass Participation; Opportunity and Access; Development and Growth Program (MOD) a platform that formally launched him into the world of theatre. Sipho got to perform on big professional stages such as the Artscape and Baxter Theatre.
Over the years, he began writing and directing his own stage shows which got to be witnessed in professional theatre spaces around Cape Town, thus including Artscape, Baxter, Fugard, and Masque Theatre.
In Grade 11 he joined an after-school film program where he learned the essential skills of filmmaking, this is when he decided to merge his love for theatre with filmmaking. After matric, he attended Film School Africa College to study Film Production but due to lack of funds, he couldn’t continue further to complete this qualification alternatively registered at a public institution, the Cape Peninsula University of Technology to complete his studies, this is where he graduated with Advanced Diploma in Film and Video Production.
To date Sipho has his own company and has worked in big movie sets, he has cast talent for the Netflix “Black Mirror”, “Blood and Water” S2, Sanlam, and OK Furniture. He also has two short films under his belt which he wrote, produced, and directed.
His recent work is Jabu, a short film that took the Best Action-Drama Film award at the Coté d’Azur WebFestival in France, in 2019 and Young Filmmaker Award in Bulgaria. In 2020 he won the Best Film Award at the 1Minute International Film Festival, in Cape Town – South Africa.
Sipho recently showed his new photographic series titled ‘INGUBO NEGAZI’ at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair in February 2023. He continues to pursue both indigenous and global storytelling through the art of lens, cinema, and stage.