biography and background

 

Born in Africa, Mabasa has come a long way to make a life for himself in The United States. Mabasa, first as a mid-teen fresh-out of High School, went to Colleges in South Africa, where he studied General Sciences majoring in Zoology and Chemistry at The University of The North (TURF), in the Northern Province formerly known as Northern Transvaal. He then transferred his studies to study Computer Science at The University of Cape Town (UCT), in the Western Cape.

There, Mabasa caught the Film-Making Bug that he had coming for a long time as he had already been producing Short Films in his backyard growing up. As a minor, Mabasa filmed community and school plays. So, when a US Film-Making Studies Scholarship came knocking while he was pursuing Computer Science at UCT while staying in GlenRes in RoseBank, Mabasa jumped at the opportunity. He got the Funds in a form of a Fully Paid Room, Board & Film Studies Scholarship to come study Film in America as a result of winning a Screenwriting Contest online for a “BOYS WILL BE BOYS”, a spec script,

he later made a short out of.



In America, Mabasa got a culture shock and a seasonal reversal only added fumes to his shock as he had left a Scotching Summer in December in South Africa to be thrust into the middle of Snowy Winter in New York. The white holiday season wasn't pleasing to Mabasa as it did to the natives. So, very quick, Mabasa boarded the plane back to South Africa on New Years Eve after only being in The States for nearly one week. Culture shock and climate change delayed Mabasa's Film Studies for another six months in South Africa. But as he waited in South Africa for the weather to be a bit more tolerable for him in The US, Mabasa took little odd jobs at the South African Broadcasting Corporation in his keeping his mind focused on his Film agenda. So, when July, which is winter in South Africa, came around, Mabasa packed again and left South Africa, for what will be forever, to study Film-Making and permanently relocated to The US but not back to New York this time as he had learnt that Los Angeles boasted similar

or close weather patterns with South Africa.

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In Los Angeles, from August 1999 to December 2002, Mabasa studied Film at Santa Monica College's Academy of Entertainment & Technology, where he majored in Film Screen-Writing, Directing, Producing and Editing while he also took Theater Arts on the Community College's Main Campus. For Theater Arts, Mabasa majored in Stage Acting and Direction because he wanted to understand how Actors operated, so, when he directs them he will understand communicating with them having been in their shoes studying acting. Upon graduation in early 2003, Mabasa transferred his Film Studies to a higher level of Film Education at The New York Film Academy, where again due to his dreading of the cold weather in New York, he settled for the Universal Studios Campus of the prestigious Elite New York Film-Making School. At New York Film Academy, Mabasa delved in depth in his Film Studies, where he further majored in Screen-Writing, which got him in America in the first place. He also majored in Film Directing, Producing and Editing, where he graduated at the top of his

class.

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Armed with a knock-them-dead Graduating Thesis Short Film titled "BOYS WILL BE BOYS", whose Feature-Film Spec Screenplay won him a Screenwriting Contest earlier on to bring him to America, amongst his slew of Short Films that he Wrote, Directed, Produced and Edited at New York Film Academy, Mabasa hit the Hollywood trenches and started knocking on doors to get any of his Sixteen Feature Length Screenplays produced by/at any Production Company but he got the same response that Many Other Film Graduates before him got. Mabasa quickly realized that Hollywood was a tough cookie to crack. So, broke and out, Mabasa settled for a Driving and Messenging job at Messengers' and Distribution, Inc., where he transported Scripts, Film Stock, Movie Campaigns and Post Production Tapes back and forth between Hollywood Agents, Major Movie Studios (mainly Paramount, DreamWorks, Amblin and Universal), The Movie Stars Houses, Post Production Labs and Post Production Companies, all in his crusade to study the industry that will not let him in. During his set-back, Mabasa founded and incorporated a Small Business called Aquarius Pictures, Inc., parent company to one of its Divisions for Film, DOBSONVILLE ENTERTAINMENT.

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When funding for Aquarius Pictures will not come by, Mabasa didn't get discouraged at all instead he continued making his Short Films and making his Movie Related deliveries from Major Movie Studios and Post Production Houses to The Houses of The Rich and Famous, which was where he got the idea of Producing one of his Sixteen Screenplays, “BOYS WILL BE BOYS” as he had already Written, Directed and

Produced the Short Film from it and the rest is, well...



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Websites

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https://vimeo.com/48137258

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