The Story of Ochre.
Ochre was the language for the earliest form of creative expression by humans. The colours associated with Ochre are vibrant, passionate, earthy, warm and welcoming. Ochre allows us to be inspired by nature and the earth and this takes us back to our place in Africa and South Africa.
Ochre is from iron ore and that represents our strength and tenacity of spirit. Ochre is also from clay which illustrates our ability to adapt and mould to sculpt great creative solutions.
Ochre is a division of Arena Holdings, one of South Africa’s leading black-owned media groups with interests in broadcast, content production, film distribution, music publishing, newspaper and digital publishing.
Over the years Ochre has assembled a core team that have a deep understanding of our values and the way we work. From showrunners, creative directors, producers, line producers and financial management, they are the leadership that assembles the best industry talent chosen for their unique fit to the shows we produce.
STAN JOSEPH
chief executive officer
ILSE VAN HEMERT
showrunner
KRISEN PATHER
development executive
SANELE ZULU
director
LIESL THOMSON
operations manager
CHARMAINE COSKEY
head of accounts
and payroll
TAWANDA HLOMAYI
project finance controller
NOXOLO DLAMINI
project finance assistant
MARIA MOFOKENG
operations assistant
PORTIA GUMEDE
showrunner
JOHNNY MABEBA
line producer
CHRISTO DAVIDS
producer
writer
director
PAUL S ROWLSTON
writer
NAD THAVER
financial manager
JEANETTE GREEN
head of project finance
key production accountant
line producer
S'PHESIHLE GUMEDE
production accountant
ANDREW COX
facilities manager
digital