Production
Petrus van Staden
Place of birth
Capetown, South Africa
Known for
Production
Credits
6 titles
Petrus van Staden is a South African filmmaker and producer based between New York City and South Africa. In 2019 he co-founded Vanishing Elephant with Tebogo Malebogo driven by a desire to find a way to tell meaningful stories. Their shorts have screened at Locarno, SXSW, JCC, New Directors/New Films, and New York Film Festival and have won multiple awards, being distributed to spaces such as Mubi, Topic, Canal + Poland and WatchArgo. He has worked between South Africa, Tanzania and the USA - producing independent work as well as an episode for Netflix's African Folktales Reimagined Anthology series. He is passionate about diversity, collaboration, finding ways to tell and uplift marginali…
Known for
4.0A man's search for connection is thrown off course during an uncomfortable encounter with an old flame.
Let's Do This Again Sometime
2021
5.8After Tau comes to a realization about their sexuality, it sets in motion a cascade of thoughts and emotions in Tumelo - nothing will ever be the same between them.
Heaven Reaches Down to Earth
2020
NRAt the end of an overdue family reunion in their ancestral land, Rain, a non-binary Chinese American discovers a family secret that launches them on a surreal odyssey to seek out the truth about their estranged father—whose disappearance is entwined with the extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin.
When the River Split Open
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NRDeceived by the promise of happiness and fulfillment in America, a Turkish immigrant housewife engages in a one-sided telephone conversation with a mysterious Turkish man, as she attempts to rediscover her identity.
Ayşegül on Tuesdays
2025
NRAfter breaking an unknown artifact, an archeology student comes to terms with the stories we will never know.
We Become a Field of Flowers
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Behind the camera
4.0A man's search for connection is thrown off course during an uncomfortable encounter with an old flame.
Let's Do This Again Sometime
2021
4.0A man's search for connection is thrown off course during an uncomfortable encounter with an old flame.
Let's Do This Again Sometime
2021
5.8After Tau comes to a realization about their sexuality, it sets in motion a cascade of thoughts and emotions in Tumelo - nothing will ever be the same between them.
Heaven Reaches Down to Earth
2020
NRAt the end of an overdue family reunion in their ancestral land, Rain, a non-binary Chinese American discovers a family secret that launches them on a surreal odyssey to seek out the truth about their estranged father—whose disappearance is entwined with the extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin.
When the River Split Open
—
NRDeceived by the promise of happiness and fulfillment in America, a Turkish immigrant housewife engages in a one-sided telephone conversation with a mysterious Turkish man, as she attempts to rediscover her identity.
Ayşegül on Tuesdays
2025
NRAfter breaking an unknown artifact, an archeology student comes to terms with the stories we will never know.
We Become a Field of Flowers
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