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Joined May 2025
The Refinery is proud to have contributed to Northwell Health, a women’s health commercial recognised with a New York Emmy Award 🏆 Our team handled the #grade, #VFX & online. Congratulations to everyone involved in this award-winning project! #post #postproduction
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From one of our projects embarking on its journey to the Oscars, to a #VFX project taking home an Emmy, we’re celebrating some incredible milestones. But we’re just as proud of the teams behind every project, including the super talented team behind Alex Sud.
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A warm welcome to Mia Berman-Levy! “I’m a Compositor & the best way I can describe my job is basically Photoshop on crack for moving images. It’s movie magic. When people say “fix it in post,” that’s what we do.” We’re excited to have you on board Mia! #postproduction #vfx
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A darker edge, brought to life through colour. The Refinery’s Kitso Monare graded Twisted by Sound, the music video for The Medicine Dolls. A RYAN KRUGER THING #colour #color #grade #post
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Coming soon: Skyline: Warpath, the 4th instalment in the franchise, written & directed by Liam O’Donnell. Starring Iko Uwais, Scott Adkins, Louis Mandylor, Randall Bacon & Yayan Ruhian. We handled the grade, #VFX & deliverables on this one. #post
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Blood Legacy is back for Season 2 on Netflix 🎬 We’re proud to have worked on the series, with The Refinery handling full post-production. #post
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The NFVF has selected Variations on a Theme, directed by Jason Jacobs & Devon Delmar, as #SouthAfrica’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. Congratulations to the team & our colourist, Abdul-Ghakeem Samaai & DI producer, Nthabiseng Dlamini 👏
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Colour by the adept Abdul-Ghakeem Samaai for the new Mutherboard ad 🎨 Another one out of the grade suite at The Refinery. CLIENT // mutherboard.com PRODUCTION // Ayah Films #colour #color #grade #post
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The trailer for The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Season 2 is out 🎬 We handled dailies on the local leg of the series, which returns to Amazon Prime on 21 October. #dailies #post
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New work for Adidas Originals Sport DC 👟 Colour by our talented Kitso Monare 🎨 Agency: Room Studio Producer: Chalé Darwin DOP: Rodeo Feed Gaffer: Phillip 'Martome' Pheeha Colorist: Kitso Monare for The Refinery Score/Sfx: KWERANATION JIT #colour #color #post
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Die Grond Onthou, the short documentary we had the privilege of working on, took home Best Short Documentary at this year’s kykNET Silwerskerm Awards, with colour by Abdul-Ghakeem Samaai 🎨 Congratulations to the entire team behind the film 👏 #grade #post
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GSTAR Raw Research. Coloured by our talented Kitso Monare. Client: G-Star RAW South Africa Photographer: Trevor Stuurman Producer: Nametso Neo Chabedi DOP: Rodeo Colorist: Kitso Monare #color #colour #post
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The short film, Yaadt Queen, premiered at the recent Silwerskermfees.This beautiful story was graded by our very own colourist Abdul-Ghakeem Samaai. Maude and Mary Studios Directed by: Kirsten Jaftha & Kylie Morkel Producer: Sarah Blanchard Director of Photography: Paul Guyeu
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We enjoyed working on the @Hennessy Cypher BTS with the team at Human Studio, with our #colourist Kitso Monare bringing the magic in the #grade 🎨✨ Always a pleasure working with great people on great work. #colour #color #grade #post
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Congratulations to the team behind Al Wat Ek Weet, which took home the Festival Favourite award at this year’s kykNET Silwerskerm Awards 🏆 A beautiful film & some seriously talented filmmakers. Graded by our #colourist Abdul-Ghakeem Samaai, we are proud to be a part of this🎬
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Chris Pratt stars in The Terminal List: Dark Wolf Season 2, and we were proud to handle the high-speed dailies and media transfers from the bottom of Africa all the way to LA. Every mission needs a strong team. Ours was bulletproof on this one 🎬 #post #postproduction
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Our talented colourist Liam Traynor in our Jo’burg office brought the final look together on this GWM South Africa Tank commercial collaborating with Director Sifiso “Slick” Khoza and Team Best Productions 🎨 #color #colour #post
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Our #colourist Abdul Ghakeem Samaai graded the award-winning Black Burns Fast feature, a South African coming-of-age drama directed by Sandulela Asanda with Pierre De Villiers as Director of Photography. #colour #color #post
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We’re cooking up something interesting with ONE SECOND AFTER, based on the acclaimed novel. It’s still early days, so we can’t say too much yet. But let’s just say this one is shaping up to be something very special. More soon.
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Our colourist Liam Traynor graded the final look on this beautiful Liberty Group SA campaign 👞 DIR: Shilo Maloney DOP: Jono Kyriakou Agency: Happy Friday Creative x Lucky Hustle Grade: Liam John Traynor @ The Refinery #color #colour #colorist #colourist #post
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