Hawke’s Bay Filmmaker Heads to Zimbabwe for Doco

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Hawke’s Bay Filmmaker Heads to Zimbabwe for Documentary

Hastings, 4 February 2009 – American filmmaker Kelli Greene Caldwell, now based in Hastings at Cloud South Film & Television, will go to Zimbabwe to film the documentary “To Zim with Love” featuring former Havelock North resident Cornelia van der Walt.

Van der Walt moved to Zimbabwe last December to be with Brian Cawood a cattle farmer in the struggling African nation. Van der Walt (50) left a thriving career in real estate to be with a man who asked her to marry him after just three days.

Caldwell will spend a week filming the couple on Cawood’s cattle and crocodile ranch near the Zimbabwean border with South Africa. Despite the risks of the project, she feels the opportunity is too good to pass up. “We all dream of meeting the man of our dreams and running away to some exotic locale, but Connie’s actually done it. That someone would move to Zimbabwe now, with all its problems, fascinates me. I’m convinced that audiences will be fascinated as well,” she stated.

Zimbabwe continues to struggle towards forming a unity government. The number of people in the country with cholera passed 60,000 this week and the WHO expects the situation to continue to deteriorate. Journalists have struggled to get into the country.

Cloud South Film & Television a Hastings-based production company are producing the documentary. Their award-winning film “One Man One Cow One Planet” is currently in release. Next up is “This Way of Life,” a documentary currently in post-production featuring local horse trekker Peter Karena.

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