Helena Spring (Executive Producer)

HELENA SPRING (Executive Producer) is the worldwide Head of Production of Videovision Entertainment and has produced more than sixty television projects and more than twenty feature films. Her most recent motion picture credits as producer include JOZI, OUTRAGEOUS, MR BONES 2, MORE THAN JUST A GAME and Darrell James Roodt’s PREY.

She also produced the Academy Award® nominated motion picture, YESTERDAY (2005), starring Leleti Khumalo (SARAFINA!); RED DUST, the TRC courtroom drama starring Hilary Swank; the stylish Cape Flats gangster film, DOLLARS AND WHITE PIPES; the record-breaking box office performers MAMA JACK and MR. BONES, starring South Africa’s number one box office star, Leon Schuster; THE LONG RUN starring Armin Muehler-Stahl (SHINE); THE THEORY OF FLIGHT starring Academy Award® winning Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter; BRAVO TWO ZERO, (as co-producer), a BBC co-production starring Sean Bean, based on Andy McNab’s best-selling book of the same title.

Helena was also executive producer of the motion picture WAATI, directed by Palme D’Or winner Souleymane Cisse; THE MANGLER, directed by Tobe Hooper (POLTERGEIST); Katinka Heyns’ PALJAS, which was selected as South Africa’s first official entry in the 1998 Academy Awards® in the Best Foreign Language film category and Darrell James Roodt’s SARAFINA! starring Whoopi Goldberg, which received a Christopher Award.