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Fidel Namisi is a screenwriter and film producer born in Nairobi, Kenya. He is best known as the writer, executive producer and producer of South Africa's first dance movie, "Hear Me Move". He has lived and worked in South Africa for the last 15 years. He has been nominated for the South African Writers Guild Award thrice and won the award twice (2013 and 2014). He has also won the Kalasha Award for Best Original Screenplay (2015). In 2014, Screen International listed him on the "Top 40 Producers To Watch" list. He has also written and produced eight TV movies, as well as created the drama series "Remix" (Mzansi Magic), "Guilt" (SABC 2) "Thula's Vine" (SABC 3) and "iKani" (SABC1). As a writer he has worked on "Soul Buddyz: Series 3" (SABC1, 2006), "A Place Called Home" (SABC 1, 2007), "Rhythm City" (eTV, 2009) and "Zone 14" (SABC 1, 2010), "Thula's Vine" (SABC3, 2016 ) and "Guilt" (SABC2, 2017), "Isibaya" (Mzansi Magic, 2019), "The Omen" (Mzansi Magic, 2020) and "Judas Kiss" (SABC1, 2020).
Fidel graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007, where he was voted the Film and TV Department's "Most Promising Student". While there, he won the Leontine Sagan award for best student proceeding to the final year of Drama, as well as the E.J.A. Loerincz scholarship. He was also admitted to the Golden Key Honours Society. After university, he won the BASA Award for Arts Sponsorship by a Business for his work on the "Off The Shelf" Film Screenings and has twice been a MultiChoice Vuka! Award Finalist. He is a co-founder of Coal Stove Pictures, a South African film production company.
