Horace Rayners
- Producer
- Editorial Department
- Editor
A graduate of the Hollywood Film Institute, Horace Rayners began his career as a film editor for Panorama Films in 1981.
He left four years later to create his own post-production company HDR Post Production, where he edited box office hits such as The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 and Ipi Ntombi and various American productions.
In 1994, Horace produced his first thirteen part television series for BOP television, and created the production company Kurira Films International in partnership with Clarence Hamilton and Seipati Bulane Hopa. The partnership lasted for thirteen years and was highlighted by the ground-breaking TV series, Molo Fish/Ekhaya, a dramatic apartheid series produced in partnership with Inner City Films. During this time, Horace assisted in the negotiations with the South African Department of Arts and Culture and the Department of Canadian Heritage that culminated in the creation of the official Canada/South Africa Film Treaty.
Molo Fish/Ekhaya was nominated for two Gemini Awards and went on to enjoy record-breaking ratings in South Africa in excess of 5 million viewers per episode. In 1998, Horace and his partners won the contract from Sesame Street New York to produce Sesame Street South Africa, resulting in the multi-award-winning production of Takalani Sesame.
Under Horace's tenure as executive producer, Takalani Sesame picked up the prestigious Ribbon of Hope Award in Los Angeles - the first African television program to ever achieve this distinction. In 2004 he started to work with Sesame Workshop New York to research and develop an adaptation of Sesame Street for Nigeria. Sesame Square started airing March 2011.
In 2006 Horace was the Executive Producer for the DSTV's Nigerian Soap Opera "Tinsel" on Mnet West Africa. A 65 episode television series in HD.
Horace was the Executive Producer for the feature film "Love Jacked" which was shot in Canada and South Africa in 2018/2019 and distributed globally in cinemas and streaming platforms such as Netflix.
Horace is developing a slate of TV series, feature films and factual programs structured as international co-productions, including projects such as African Music and Beer Festival, Celebrating African Legendary Music and Beer as the international production team of said project.
Horace Rayners is a partner in Studio RSA Films and the founder and owner of Kilimanjaro Studios
He left four years later to create his own post-production company HDR Post Production, where he edited box office hits such as The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 and Ipi Ntombi and various American productions.
In 1994, Horace produced his first thirteen part television series for BOP television, and created the production company Kurira Films International in partnership with Clarence Hamilton and Seipati Bulane Hopa. The partnership lasted for thirteen years and was highlighted by the ground-breaking TV series, Molo Fish/Ekhaya, a dramatic apartheid series produced in partnership with Inner City Films. During this time, Horace assisted in the negotiations with the South African Department of Arts and Culture and the Department of Canadian Heritage that culminated in the creation of the official Canada/South Africa Film Treaty.
Molo Fish/Ekhaya was nominated for two Gemini Awards and went on to enjoy record-breaking ratings in South Africa in excess of 5 million viewers per episode. In 1998, Horace and his partners won the contract from Sesame Street New York to produce Sesame Street South Africa, resulting in the multi-award-winning production of Takalani Sesame.
Under Horace's tenure as executive producer, Takalani Sesame picked up the prestigious Ribbon of Hope Award in Los Angeles - the first African television program to ever achieve this distinction. In 2004 he started to work with Sesame Workshop New York to research and develop an adaptation of Sesame Street for Nigeria. Sesame Square started airing March 2011.
In 2006 Horace was the Executive Producer for the DSTV's Nigerian Soap Opera "Tinsel" on Mnet West Africa. A 65 episode television series in HD.
Horace was the Executive Producer for the feature film "Love Jacked" which was shot in Canada and South Africa in 2018/2019 and distributed globally in cinemas and streaming platforms such as Netflix.
Horace is developing a slate of TV series, feature films and factual programs structured as international co-productions, including projects such as African Music and Beer Festival, Celebrating African Legendary Music and Beer as the international production team of said project.
Horace Rayners is a partner in Studio RSA Films and the founder and owner of Kilimanjaro Studios
