THE ENEMY WITHIN by Meg Nicholls from Clarendon High School. A student film made as part of an Inter-School Short Film Competition in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. 2016. 18 Film were made with schools in the 2016 Competition.
High School Learners write and pitch their stories as short film screenplays. The most promising scripts are selection to go into production as part of the competition. Writers of the selections screenplays get to direct their films with a crew of learners from their school filling roles of producer, camera, lighting, sound, art department, continuity, script superviser, etc. The student crews receive introductory training and support from a mentor film crew as they make their film. All actors are from the school, all scenes are created on the school premises, props sourced by the learners, scenes plotted and rehearsed by the learners, and the film is shot in a single day at the school. The School films are a mix of English, Xhosa or Afrikaans.