Shukri Toefy
Shukri Toefy | |
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| Born | 1 April 1984 |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, investor, film producer, public speaker, CEO |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Website | shukritoefy |
Shukri Toefy is an entrepreneur, investor, film producer, speaker and co-founder and CEO[1] at Fort. He is currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Career[edit]
Shukri Toefy holds a degree in Law and Politics from the University of Cape Town, an Executive MBA from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, and is an Entrepreneurship Expert at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.[2]
He has served on a number of boards, including The Cape Film Commission, Sizalo Investment Group and Kinza.org, and has presented on topics including entrepreneurship, business model innovation, storytelling, shared value, and policy on economic and social development.[3]
Fort[edit]
While a student at the University of Cape Town, Shukri Toefy met Amr Singh. The two became friends and, after choosing to miss their graduation ceremony to take a job filming in Dublin, Ireland, went on to found Fort (formerly West Fort, then The Fort, before a final name change in 2017) together, where he now serves as co-founder and chief executive officer.
The Rainmakers Journal[edit]
Shukri Toefy is the founder and narrator of the Rainmakers Journal, a thought leadership platform that, through a series of projects, hopes to help people unlock the value of shared knowledge. Current projects include Unwritten: A Visual Journey of Nepal, an award-winning arthouse short film, and a series of workshops designed around the importance of journaling as a method of unlocking hidden treasures, setting goals and the value of shared knowledge.[4]
Unwritten: A Visual Journey of Nepal[edit]
In 2014, filming began on Unwritten: A Visual Journey of Nepal, an arthouse short film shot in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal only months before the Ghorka earthquakes.[5] A film project started with Fort co-founder Amr Singh, under the Rainmakers Journal thought leadership platform, is a powerful cinematic account of Toefy's journey across the Kathmandu Valley as told by the pages of his journal. Along his journey he meets with artisans, musicians, spiritualists, scholars, and survivors of a bygone era where the knowledge handed down from generation to generation was seen as a rite of passage, in search of lessons he can apply to his own life.[6]
The short has since caught the attention of various international film festivals, including the Amsterdam Film Festival, where it won the Van Gogh award for best World Cinema: Documentary Feature,[7] the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards (HIIDA) where it won Best Cultural Short,[8] as well as official selections at Rome Film Festival, Balinale and Largo Film Festival.
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
- 2016: Unwritten: A Visual Journey of Nepal
Commercials[edit]
- Lays – Endless Questions (2010)[9]
- The Haven Night Shelter – Lets Get the Homeless Home (2010)[10]
- Women's Health South Africa – Good To Be You (2009)[11]
- Remia – Over the Fence (2009)[12]
- SuperSport – Globacom Premier League (2008)[13]
Television[edit]
Music videos[edit]
- "First We Need the Love" – Zain Bhikha (2010)
- "Who I Am" – Zain Bhikha (2009)
- "What's Love" – HC (2008)[16]
Awards and nominations[edit]
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| List of awards and nominations | |||||
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| Year | Award / Film Festival | Category | Work | Result | |
| 2016 | Amsterdam Film Festival | Van Gogh Award: World Cinema Doc | Unwritten: A Visual Journey of Nepal | Won | |
| Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards | Best Cultural Short | Won | |||
Other recognition[edit]
- 2008, Cape Film Commission – Board of Directors
References[edit]
- ^ FORT: About
- ^ Said Business School: Shukri Toefy
- ^ Shukri Toefy: About
- ^ The Rainmakers Journal: About
- ^ Chidanand Rajghatta (26 April 2015). "Is this the 'Big Himalayan Quake' we feared?". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ^ IMDb: Unwritten Plot Summary
- ^ Amsterdam Film Festival: 2016 Winners
- ^ HIIDA Film Festival: July 2016 Winners
- ^ "Lays – Endless Questions".
- ^ "The Haven Night Shelter PSA".
- ^ "Fort Films Website".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Remia – over the Fence".
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Globacom Premier League – via YouTube.
- ^ "Women's Day special broadcast – Hamba Dompas Woza ID". Media Update. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
- ^ "Vme - Sudáfrica 2010: Mas alla de la cancha". Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
- ^ "Fort Films' Amr Singh Hits the High Notes for HC". Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2010.