L’EQUIPE

Dumi Gumbi /// Producteur
Cati Weinek /// Productrice
Bruce McLaren-Lyall /// Post Production

The Ergo Company is a film studio focused on strictly commercially genre driven South African feature films, generated through acustomer value proposition (CVP) in order to monetize the creative economy.
The universal appeal of film is achieved through excellence in storytelling, production quality and highly marketablebox-office proven genres. At the heart of our innovative strategy lies great story, which is strategically translated by astakeholder-driven green lighting process. Our aim is to build a content studio with a global reach that has capacity tomanage risks of development, production and distribution in order to focus on monetization and strong profit margins.

The Ergo Company has a disciplined focus on making four feature films a year, with average budgets of 6 million ZAR,with the intent to control distribution and associated platforms. The company’s strategic intent is to return theinvestment on all its film projects locally as well as through exploitation of secondary markets across the globe.

THE TEAM

Dumi Gumbi /// Producer
Dumi is an award-winning producer and consultant in the creative media industries, focusing on Film & TV, and Consumer-Marketing.

Cati Weinek /// Producer
Producer of popular, prize-winning film and television content, Cati understands how to use budgets for the ultimate purpose of making beautiful content that resonates with audiences with an eye for a return on investment.

Bruce McLaren-Lyall /// Post Production
An innovative editor, visual storyteller and post production specialist, with a keen interest in new film technologies.