Corne van Rooyen (Director)

Summertide

The story of marine biologist and father of two children, Martin Field, who moves to the False Bay area to get away from a big secret - the death of his wife. There he starts a marine conservation trust for False Bay - but life isn't as simple as it seems.

Release Date2024-01-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Susters

Susters' is a new South African film about three sisters who reunited during a road trip down memory lane, with a fabulous local cast.

Release Date2018-03-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Inconceivable

Inconceivable is the story of two women who've been best friends since high school, now at the centre of a group of female friends, all in their mid-thirties and facing the first few years of getting pregnant and child-rearing while each holding down their demanding jobs. In the midst of this friend group is a lingering affair, a struggle with infertility, fierce competitiveness, even fiercer love and something unthinkable.

Release Date2020-09-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Alles Malan

Alles Malan is a family drama that plays off in the Paarl just outside Cape Town. Derik and Brenda Malan are the head of the family. Their first born son, Frik returns after 8 years from England to take over their family business from his father. His wife, Tessa, and their two teenage kids accompanies him, but each has a challenge of their own.

Release Date2019-07-09

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

Hans Crosses The Rubicon

A widower, Hans (90), is forced into a repressive old-age-home. Once there, he comes face to face with the draconian management, who forces him to become a rebel and activist, a 90-year-old-man who has nothing to lose by revolting. An anti-ageism revolution about growing old on your own terms.

Release Date2023-09-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Afgrond

Fate and the choices that five women make while each is fighting for their existence bring them together. Each has to make a decision that will change their lives.

Release Date2021-02-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

Hollywood in my House

Hollywood in my Huis is 'n coming-of-age romantic comedy set against the backdrop of 2004's matric dance in South Africa. The story focuses on an ordinary teenage girl - Jana van Tonder - who lives in an impoverished railway neighborhood with her dysfunctional parents. When she witnesses Charlize Theron's iconic Oscar win, Jana is inspired to transform her upcoming matric dance into her very own Hollywood Red Carpet mooment. Meanwhile, Jana's secret cursh, Brandon, the school's tennis champ, breaks off his relationship with Angelique, the school's most popular girl. But just as Jana needs to scrape together the courage to ask Brandon to the dance, her best friend and boy-next-door, Frikkie, reveals his true feelings for her. With the matric dance less than a month away, Jana has to make the difficult decision between her closest friend and her dream date.

Release Date2015-06-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

She Sounds Like Spring

Ben, a mechanic at a Johannesburg car dealership, and Linda, a beautiful, smart redhead, cross paths one night. He immediately recognises her as his boss’s daughter, although she has no idea who he is. They’re immediately attracted to each other, and, in a frantic and uncertain effort to disguise his identity, Ben lies to Linda and claims to be in a band. When their love blossoms unexpectedly and he decides that he wants to live up to his lie, he starts a band with a few fellow employees, and they enroll for a battle-of-the-bands competition.

Release Date2016-09-30

DepartmentProduction

JobAdditional Casting

Vote Count1

Vaselinetjie

At the age of 8, Vaselinetjie is taken away by the Welfare and send to the orphanage. It's a strange, hard, dangerous world of rebel children, fierce house mothers,friends, first loves and where she finally finds true self-acceptance.

Release Date2017-09-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Mooi River

Another first for South Africa's fast growing film industry - A multiple story line ensemble romantic comedy capturing the essence of what love looks like in all it's different shapes and sizes. Mooirivier is a film about relationships, about how we can't live without them, about how love always wins, even if it doesn't look, or turn out, the way you thought it would.

Release Date2015-02-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3