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Laudika yaNdangii, real name Laudika Thanky Hamutenya, is a 26 year old Namibian filmmaker, he has a Bachelor's degree in Writing and Directing from ADFA Cape Town. ​
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Laudika has written more than 10 screenplays with 8 of them being directed by himself. His films have been produced in Cape Town, South Africa, Ludwigsburg, Germany as well as Windhoek, Namibia. After graduating from AFDA Cape Town in 2019, Laudika began to work in advertising for Hashtag Media, doing work with Corporate clients like Multichoice Namibia, Prosperity Health, Paratus and Renaissance Health among a few others.
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In 2020, Laudika moved to Germany for a 6 month International Exchange program at the Film Academy in Ludwigsburg, Germany. While there he wrote and directed Lauf, a German psychological thriller about the effects of guilt on one's psyche. The film has been screened in Germany, Greece, France, Turkey & India. It has also won Best Student Film awards in 3 festivals and has been nominated in 3 more.
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In 2021 he co-wrote and was assistant director on Stray-Flower; A German production short film shot in Walvis Bay, Namibia.
Laudika is currently the creative director for Namibia’s first ever Dating show Kapana Spice on YouTube.
FILMOGRAPHY
LAUF
Psychological Thriller
November 2021
An old man is being held captive by a gun-wielding man and a faceless woman. The only way to escape is simple. He must stop running.
NTOMBEZULU
Socio-Realist Drama
November 2019
Four college friends go on a camping trip to relax and have fun. However when a trauma happens to one of them, relationships are tested, trust and morality is broken and a fatal lesson about the true power of consent is learned.
DREAMER
Psychological Drama
August 2019
Dreamer explores the self-detachment that is caused by the constant need to escape reality and how this detachment can lead to self-destruction.
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A TORTURED SILENCE
Psychogical Horror
April 2018
A young psychologist tries to torture a psychotic serial killer to submission. But when the serial killer escapes it is hell for everyone around including the psychologist.