Rick Cresswell

Movies

Tarzan and the Lost City
Special Effects Supervisor
Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.
Sarafina!
Special Effects Coordinator
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
Dust Devil
Special Effects
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Agter elke man
Special Effects
A concluding movie to the Afrikaans television series that ran for two seasons, this movie focuses mainly on Bruce Beyers after he is released from jail (2 years after the second season ended). Many main characters from the TV series did not return for the movie. The movie also features Steve Hofmeyer's song, "Agter Elke Man", which he wrote for the movie.
Reason to Die
Special Effects Coordinator
A cop sets up his girlfriend as a target in order to trap a serial killer.