WHO ARE WE?

We have been working together since 1998 when we met on the hit daily soap ISIDINGO. In 2005, along with Neil McCarthy, we created MZANSI – a series for SABC1, which won the Duku Duku (audience choice awards) for Best TV drama in 2005. And this year we made our first feature film - WHITE WEDDING, which will soon be coming to a screen near you! 

Rapulana Seiphemo, Jann Turner and Kenneth Nkosi

Stepping Stone Pictures: Production Company.

Stepping Stone Pictures is a partnership between Jann Turner, Kenneth Nkosi and Rapulana Seiphemo. We have been working together since 1998 when we met on the hit daily soap ISIDINGO. In those days Jann was directing and Kenneth and Rapulana were acting in the series. Since then we’ve worked together on developing a pharmadrama for the BBC and along with Neil McCarthy we created MZANSI – a series for SABC1, which won the Duku Duku (audience choice awards) for Best TV drama in 2005.  

We started writing WHITE WEDDING in 2007 and we shot it in 18 days in 2008. It was released in South Africa in April 2009 and became an instant hit. Much of the depth and intensity of the dialogue in WHITE WEDDING comes from the real life friendship between Kenneth Nkosi and Rapulana Seiphemo who are very passionate and very vocal about each other, life, relationships and pretty much everything else.
On WHITE WEDDING we were joined by Kevin Fleischer, our Consigliere, who keeps advises us on business matters and keeps us on the commercial straight and narrow.

We are currently in post production on our new film PARADISE STOP, also written and produced by Jann, Kenneth and Raps with Jann taking the directing chair while Raps and Kenny star in the picture. PARADISE STOP was shot on location in Johannesburg and Limpopo Province in South Africa in October 2009. It will release in South Africa in October 2010.

Post production on PARADISE STOP is expected to finish by May 2010 and after that we’ll start writing our next feature, aiming to shoot in June 2011. We’re not sure what it’s going to be yet, but we have some ideas that we’re kicking around and one in particular that we’re excited about.

Our International Headquarters are a room in Jann’s back garden. We’re not interested in building a big company, we’re interested in making films so that’s where we spend the money that we do manage to raise. So far we’ve been incredibly lucky to get backing from bestselling author Ken Follett who, through his company Ken Follett Presents, has funded both WHITE WEDDING and PARADISE STOP. Ken acts as our Executive Producer and gets involved in the writing stage as a script consultant.  

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