Avril Beukes Trailers
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Avril Beukes' career spans decades. She has edited more than 25 feature films, the most recent being "Respect" starring Jennifer Hudson and directed by Liesl Tommy. "Little One", which she edited in 2012, was selected as the South African Foreign Language entry to the 2013 Academy Awards. Other highlights include "Yesterday" which was nominated for the 2005 Foreign Film Academy Award and "Red Dust" starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor (for which she received the inaugural Golden Horn Award for Feature Film Editing in 2006). South Africa's 1997 Oscar entry "Paljas" was co-edited by Avril.
Whilst still in her native South Africa, she won numerous other awards for her editing work in feature films and television. She edited the debut feature films of directors Tom Hooper and Gavin Hood and worked extensively with Darrell James Roodt.
In the US, she has edited feature films, scripted TV and feature documentary films, working with directors such as Julie Dash, Tina Mabry, Numa Perrier, Kiel Scott and Kasi Lemmons.
Avril's scripted TV work includes 4 seasons of Ava DuVernay's OWN series "Queen Sugar" and Season 1 of Tarell McCraney's "David Makes Man", the pilot episode of "The Thing About Pam", 2 episodes of "The Big Cigar" and 3 episodes of Bosch Legacy Season 3.
Most Popular Avril Beukes Trailers
Total trailers found: 28
03 December 2011
Adobea, Buki and Theresa are three women from different walks of life bound together by a similar pain; the loss of a child.
06 March 1998
An elderly man owns a small, isolated general store, somewhere in rural South Africa. After suffering a series of burglaries, which culminate in the murder of a night-watchman, the Storekeeper finally takes the law into his own hands - with tragic consequences.
01 October 2008
Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not granted when a young, vibrant and ironically full of life Kevin becomes Alvin's hospice roommate.
01 January 1992
The traumatic experience of a standard 9 (grade 11) Elizabeth who feels the influence of her parents divorce, during a period of sexual awakening.
26 April 2013
Little One is a story about ordinary people living day to day in a poverty-stricken environment where despite the crime and tough living conditions there is still hope and love to be found.
18 May 2007
An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.
09 August 2004
In the year 3000, the deep space salvage ship Mother III locates the vanished starship Demeter in the Carpathian System.
20 August 2013
Dystopia is a post apocalyptic thriller about the journey of a man and a young girl (Rick and Christine) who struggle to survive in a city of darkness and desolation.
01 June 2013
The film's plot involves a mining company trying to steal land from the Nama people, a lawyer investigating the company, and themes of illness and survival.
12 August 2021
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
28 September 1990
A concluding movie to the Afrikaans television series that ran for two seasons, this movie focuses mainly on Bruce Beyers after he is released from jail (2 years after the second season ended).
11 January 2004
Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.
01 March 2013
After Fanie takes Dinky, a strong Zulu woman, to his Afrikaans family wedding, the two find an unexpectedly fun cross-cultural romance.
25 October 2009
A romantic drama about a tight-knit group of college friends who graduated from NYU the year of 9/11 and reunite years later for a weekend wedding in Georgia.
30 April 2003
Based on Sax Rohmer's cult novels "Sumuru", the futuristic fantasy take you to an Earth colony in the far future in which woman rule and men are used to propagate the race and work in the mines.
17 May 2015
Olympia Dukakis and Rose Gregorio play Greek-American women in their 70s who create stories to avoid the realities of growing older.
03 September 2004
After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.
01 January 2000
During the Derg Period in Ethiopia, artist Alazar provides safety for his politically involved friend Jonas.
22 April 2007
Curiously named teen Moondance Alexander lives with her eccentric mother, and is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers.
22 December 2000
A man opens a small-town bookstore in order to escape his connections to a mobster, but is reluctantly drawn back to his dark past by a mysterious woman.
23 January 1998
Follows the deterioration of an Afrikaner family isolated and shunned in the small community of Toorwater.
01 January 1988
The acclaimed drama based on Dalene Matthee´s award-winning novel. "Fiela se Kind" (Fiela's Child) is the story of a white foundling boy that is raised by a brown family.
02 March 2011
In New York City, Thom is broke and jobless, illegally working as a taxi driver. Claire is a successful business-woman, but personally she's in shambles - then comes the phone call that her estranged father is in the hospital.
19 October 2013
Natalie and Joshua appear to be the picture-perfect couple, but looks can be deceiving. When Natalie discovers her husband has led a secret life, she is forced to deal with losing everything she loves.
26 June 2009
When her father unexpectedly falls terminally ill, exotic dancer Jessica "Jesse" Brown returns home for the first time in more than a decade.
04 May 2001
A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa.
13 August 1999
With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
01 February 2012
A biography on the life of Amy Winehouse.
