Directors' Statement

"To us, this film is about the opportunity to grow, to try again and the hope that each new day brings us closer to restoration." - Warwick Eccles and Kgosi Maleka

Exposure was born from challenge after challenge. We endured the grueling deadlines of term 1, completed our pitches, only for lockdown to strike, shattering all the preparation that we had done and rendering our story impossible to tell in its original form. However, despite our lost labours, we were adamant to overcome our circumstances and embrace our new restrictions as creative limitations. The need to adapt our script for COVID-19 compelled us to investigate our theme and subject matter more intensely and birthed a work that would never have been made if it weren’t for the stringent restrictions on our creativity and the obstacles we faced.

Our attitude throughout the process of making this film has been to meet all challenges head on and to press through with the hope of coming out of our experiences with mastery over them. Looking at what we as a crew have endured along the way – countless 1am nights, innumerable drafts, endless hours of prep across all disciplines and, after all that, to have to put the original version of our work aside and created something new – it is only fitting that our labours have brought us all to make a film which celebrates the process of growth and the ultimate triumph over our struggles.