PROFILE
Brent Sauls has worked across the lighting department, from trainee electrician and Best Boy to Gaffer and Rigging Gaffer. His Gaffer credits now include Summers’ Last Resort, Last Day in Paradise, Hag and Sniper: The Last Stand, alongside South African stories such as Wild Is the Wind, The Umbrella Men and Griekwastad.
His Rigging Gaffer work on Our Girl Season 3 and Uitvlucht sits alongside earlier international assignments as a Rigging Spark on Star Trek Beyond’s Dubai unit and Senior Technician on The Mummy’s Namibia unit. Brent also has a substantial commercial Gaffer portfolio, with campaigns for ASICS, Adidas, Tom Ford, Primark and Sky Football.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Gaffer on African Queens, The Brave Ones, Devil’s Peak and Griekwastad.
- Rigging Gaffer on Our Girl Season 3 and Uitvlucht.
- Gaffer dailies on Afterlife of the Party and Grant; Gaffer on one episode of Death by Magic.
- Commercial DOP collaborations include Erik Wilson, Benoît Delhomme, Lennert Hillege and Motheo Moeng.
- South African; English and Afrikaans; Code 10 driving licence with PDP.
SELECTED DIRECTORS
Long Form
Commercials
SELECTED DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Long Form
Commercials
SELECTED PRODUCERS & PRODUCTION MANAGERS
Long Form
Commercials
SELECTED PRODUCTION COMPANIES
SELECTED STUDIOS, BROADCASTERS & PLATFORMS
SELECTED COMMERCIAL CLIENTS
SELECTED GAFFING & LIGHTING EXPERIENCE
Summers’ Last Resort
Blue Ice Africa
Gaffer
Last Day in Paradise
Film Afrika
Gaffer
Hag
Blue Ice Africa
Gaffer
Sniper: The Last Stand
Blue Ice Africa
Gaffer
Wild Is the Wind
Moonlighting Films | Netflix
Gaffer
The Umbrella Men
Moonlighting Films
Gaffer
The Brave Ones
One Brave One | Netflix
Gaffer
African Queens
Film Afrika
Gaffer
Devil’s Peak
Film Afrika | M-Net
Gaffer
Griekwastad
7 Films
Gaffer
Our Girl Season 3
Out of Africa Entertainment
Rigging Gaffer
Uitvlucht
North South Productions
Rigging Gaffer
Afterlife of the Party
Advantage Entertainment
Gaffer – dailies
Grant
Film Afrika
Gaffer – dailies
Star Trek Beyond
Film Works FZ | Paramount Pictures
Rigging Spark – Dubai unit
The Mummy
Moonlighting Films
Senior Technician – Namibia unit
Sky Football
Gatehouse Commercials
Gaffer
Tom Ford
Namib Films
Gaffer