According to his mother, Jo's penchant for doing his own thing surfaced when he ran away from nursery school. His scholastic career spanned fifteen schools and many classroom periods spent in search of alternative education at the movies. Being oblivious to his dyslexia didn't make Jo much of a wordsmith. So from an extremely early age he started thinking in pictures.
Whilst working as a clothing salesman, a client gave Jo a Super 8 camera in lieu of a bad debt. With the new realization of being able to make a movie on Super 8, his passion for filmmaking was re-injected. He joined an amateur filmmakers club and in no time, was the recipient of numerous awards. At one of these awards ceremonies, the SA Ten Best, Jo was approached by an advertising agency creative, with a proposition to apply his skills to making commercials.
With the success and profitability of the commercials industry, Jo's dreams of leaving a profound mark as a moviemaker, slowly became dormant. And over twenty years, Jo and his company, Creative Vision developed a track record servicing a high profile list of corporate clients via the countries leading agencies.
2004 brought home the truth that commercial success was not the true measure of his filmmaking prowess, and Jo found himself wanting nothing more than to live out the dream of making features. He found out soon enough that getting a feature off the ground and financing it is a huge undertaking and decided to make this short film his calling card. Not only to showcase his ability as a director and storyteller, but also his production company which specialises in visual effects and 3-D animation.
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