Peter Goldsmid

Peter creates empathy through great storytelling. He is drawn to rebels who stand for human values against repression. His projects reflect this. His award-winning feature film, The Road to Mecca (1990), starred Oscar-winner Kathy Bates. Over 90 hours of television followed, including 5 prime-time drama series for the national broadcaster, the SABC.

Peter has won awards for writing, directing and producing. Difficult Love, the documentary he made with lesbian visual activist and renowned photographer, Zanele Muholi, won 9 international awards and has been seen in more than 90 film festivals all over the world. His documentary, Dance up from the Street, about an innovative dance programme that is changing the lives of former street kids in Kigali, Rwanda was selected for the Cannes Film Festival (among others).

Peter taught screenwriting and documentary filmmaking for six years at AFDA until 2020, where he also obtained an MFA (cum laude).

He returned to active production with a feature-length documentary on George Bizos for the subscription broadcaster, M-Net (in the “South African Icons” series), and an award-winning documentary on rural land rights activism.

He is currently writing, producing and directing LOOKING INTO DARKNESS for SABC 3. This True Crime documentary series is hosted by South Africa’s best-known independent forensic investigator, David Klatzow.

Margaret Goldsmid

Together with her husband Peter, Margaret has produced over 90 hours of prime time television drama that collectively amassed close to 50 national awards. She is a script editor approved by the National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa, working with writers and producers from all over the world.  Until the end of 2023, she lectured in post-graduate screenwriting at AFDA film school, where she obtained an MFA in Screenwriting (cum laude). As Head of Drama for the national broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation in the 90s, she developed and oversaw some of the finest drama series of that period. 

She currently develops and edits both feature screenplays and television series. She co-wrote the script of Krotoa, a multi-award-winning feature film directed by Roberta Durandt of Penguin Films. Margaret has story-lined and written scores of scripts for telenovelas produced by that company and currently works on both Arendsvlei (Eagle Lake) and Afgrond (Abyss), popular telenovelas for M-Net’s KykNet channel.