Clark Media started with a pretty simple idea: get creative people together and make things.

Founded and run by Anja van den Bergh and Rani Kruger, Clark Media is an independent South African production company working across film, videography and creative media. Our work ranges from narrative films and music videos to promotional content, events, corporate productions and commercial work. Some projects start with a script, and some start with someone saying something mildly ridiculous that somehow turns into an entire production, e.g. our feature film “Is The Braai Lit Yet” we worked on for the last 7 months

A big part of Clark is collaboration. We want to create an environment where filmmakers, actors, writers, photographers, musicians and other creatives can meet, experiment and actually put their ideas into practice. You don’t need twenty years of experience or a ridiculous IMDb page to be part of something. Sometimes the best way to learn filmmaking is simply to grab a camera, surround yourself with good people and make the damn thing.

That’s also where our motto comes from: “Make it exist first, we can make it pretty later.” A bootlegger’s motto (Not inspired by Nike’s “Just do it”)

It pretty much sums up how we approach creativity. Ideas have a habit of dying while people wait for the perfect equipment, the perfect budget, the perfect crew or the perfect moment. We’d rather start making something, figure things out along the way and improve it as we go. The first version doesn’t need to be perfect ! it just needs to exist.

We also love helping other creatives get their projects off the ground. Whether that means producing, filming, planning, providing crew or figuring things out together as we go, we want Clark to be somewhere ideas can actually become real rather than permanently living in a notes app.

At the same time, we take the work seriously. (Just not ourselves lol) We care about good stories, good visuals, improving with every production and creating work we can genuinely be proud of. We’re constantly learning, occasionally improvising. We create work we love watching on loop in the timeline

Ultimately, Clark Media is about creating things, meeting people and building a community around the process. Make films. Make art. Try weird ideas. Learn something. Have fun doing it.

And if it all goes horribly wrong, at least we got some behind-the-scenes content out of it.