Roger Hawkins

Roger Hawkins is a prolific director and actor, known for The Lion of Judah (2011), The Silent Fall (2007) and The Legend of the Sky Kingdom (2004). Roger has been associated with many positions in filmmaking. He is an editor, production designer, writer, actor, and takes charge of the music department. He began his career not just as a director but also as a production designer in the movie 'The Legend of the Sky Kingdom (2004)'. It was an animated film and was based on a children novel of the same name. Phil Cunningham and Jacqui Cunningham was the producer of the movie.

Although the film was a low-budget film, it has an artistic taste of set design. He spent two years in building a customized camera out of bicycle parts as the production unit did not have money to buy any professional equipment. In 2007, Roger Hawkins directed a social aspect film. He chose the AIDs awareness theme and he narrated the problems of AIDS that were escalating in Africa then. The film took a narrative of a doctor who was killed for experimenting drugs on AIDS. In 2001, again Roger experimented with another animation movie ' The Lion of Judah' which was produced by Animated Family Films.

The film was animated at the Character Maters Animation Studio which is situated in Cape Town and Rocky Mountain Pictures distributed the film. He also composed additional music for this movie. He also has done voice over for a character Hornsby in the movie. Hawkins also directed the TV series 'Jabu's Jungle'(2007). He gave his direction for this series for 26 episodes. It was also an animated adventure series aimed at entertaining children. Gulli Africa distributed the series in 22 African countries.