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EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Kimble has opened the newest management agency on the international beat with a roster of UK and South African talent.
Arrested Industries Talent will sit within Kimble’s Arrested Industries, the content development, financing and production company he runs out of L.A., London and Cape Town. Its launch is designed to identify and curate talent from smaller markets and expand their international careers.
The agency launches with a roster comprising writer/director Christiaan Olwagen, writer/director/author Etienne Fourie, director Tina Gharavi, Edinburgh Fringe breakout Lyndon Chapman, and actors Daniel Fox, Daniel Schultz and Sam Benjamin.
Kimble will continue working with LA-based 5X Media, with Arrested Industries Talent now having a co-representation in the U.S. with the producer and management firm. 5X will represent Arrested’s talent in the U.S., while Arrested will rep 5×5 talent in South Africa and other territories.
“During the course of developing various projects and especially while spending some time in South Africa, I have been lucky enough to meet some really extraordinary talent, people that I felt needed to have their voice heard or be seen on a much wider stage,” said Kimble.
“Territories like South Africa are producing some incredible films and television series, but until they travel more widely, their talented writers and actors are unlikely to get the spotlight they deserve — and that’s where Arrested Industries Talent comes in. Sometimes, we will be fostering exciting new talent, but more frequently, we will be taking proven talent from one territory and helping them to become recognised in the U.S. and internationally.”
Olwagen’s directing credits include Silweskerm Festival winner Poppie Nongena, drama series Recipes For Love and Murder and the Natalie Dormer-starrer White Lies. His latest show, Koek, the Showmax drama, follows a housewife who discovers her husband is having an affair with a stripper, is being shopped as a scripted format and a UK option is soon to be announced, we hear.
Fourie, another South African creative force, is known for feature films such as Die Windpomp and Liewe Fersfeedvader and drama series Tydelik Terminaal, which won the South African Film and Television Award for Best Achievement in Directing TV Drama. He also published his first novel, ‘Man in die Maan’. His Showmax drama series Tompoppie is currently under option in the U.S., with the script being adapted.
Gharavi directed I Am Nasrine and for the Jada Pinkett Smith four-part Netflix series African Queens: Cleopatra and upcoming British romcom Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, which just wrapped shooting and stars Jack Whitehall, Jennifer Saunders, Timothy Spall, Haley Bennett and Lily Allen. She will also showrun the upcoming drama series The Fox, a Scandi Noir that’s she has been writing and is in development.
Kimble discovered UK-based Chapman at the Edinburgh Fringe comedy festival last August, where his show, Is the WiFi Good in Hell? was well received.
South African actor Schultz starred in Upon the Edge and had a lead role in Olwager’s Netflix series, White Lies. He played Natalie Dormer’s nephew in the show, which starred the Game of Thrones actress as an investigative journalist drawn in Cape Town’s criminal underbelly after her estranger brother is murdered.
Fox counts among his TV roles HBO series Generation Kill, Sky’s Strike Back and Showtime’s City on a Hill and feature films including Safe House and Eye in the Sky. Most recently, he was seen in Apple TV+’s drama series Invasion.
Benjamin has had roles in Peaky Blinders, The Few, The War of the Worlds and Doctor Who and movies such as Zack Snyder’s Justice League. His recently written feature film debut, The Pay Day, premiered on Starz.
