Katlego Baaitse opens our eyes to something beautiful with a surreal unboxing film of the new OPPO A72 mobile phone.

The freshest young talent directed by the freshest young talent? Granted!
The Brave Group is renowned for their brave work. And in creating the Grant’s Crew Battle campaign for their client Grant’s Whisky, they wanted a director equally brave. Spitfire’s youngest Black director, JT, was their man.Supported by a strong all-female production team (producer Baleseng, production manager Relebohile and director-in-training Hloni), JT was up for the challenge and then some. Three crews, four challenges and a 12-hour shoot day later, Brave and Grant’s got themselves a winner. As the original content creators, we do all things content. And we’d like to make yours a winner too. Contact Spitfire today.

Katlego Baaitse opens our eyes to something beautiful with a surreal unboxing film of the new OPPO A72 mobile phone.

Converse Roots: We are All Stars
Converse gets the All-Star treatment from Spitfire’s rising star- Katlego Baaitse.
Katlego combines a generous helping of street, super keen vision and heaps of advertising experience to create a piece of communication that leaps out the screen and grabs you by the soul. Having an agency as visionary as Joe Public helps a great deal too. This picture acknowledges the visionaries of the past, celebrates this who walk in their shoes today and salute the All Stars of our time.

It’s Monday and yes the 25th day of the Lockdown in SA.
Here is a fun ad directed by JT, it was such fun to shoot with Core and I store. A great team and in another interesting and beautiful location in Joburg called Breezeblock.We hope you are all managing to stay positive during lockdown and we look forward to bouncing back with you when brighter days return.

iKhokha and Spitfire’s Katlego – Together We Rise. iKhokha is a South African fintech company redefining the way SMEs do business through mobile innovation. Katlego Baaitse is a director redefining the way commercials entertain and engage their target markets. With the eye of an artist, the mind of a marketer and the soul of a storyteller, Katlego’s newest work for iKhokha is an experiential delight for everyone, SME owner or not. Katlego created a stunningly styled and heart-warmingly humorous campaign of work that sees Senzo & Siyanda, a daddy and daughter bakery team, passionately motivate small business owners to “rise” together and grow their businesses with the help of iKhokha. A series of short teaser films, supported by product-led posters, led up to short standalone product and brand spots before breaking the main brand commercial, again supported by print executions showcasing Senzo & Siyanda as iKhokha’s “brand ambassadors”. Katlego’s talent for outstanding performance, comedic timing and gorgeous cinematography shines through brighter – literally and figuratively! – than ever before. Take a look for yourself. And again, just for fun. Then contact Spitfire to find out how Katlego can make your idea shine as well.

Nothing but real passion from AK and Spitfire for Liqui Fruit.
“Real” has been a hallmark of Spitfire co-founder and Director AK’s work for years. (Check out his other reel at spitfire.tv ) Real passion, real talent, and a real commitment to creating outstanding commercials that inform and engage. Wunderman Thompson and their client Liqui-Fruit thought so too.
Documenting a group of friends documenting a roadtrip called for … well, a roadtrip. Cast, agency and crew embarked on a journey beginning in jozi, stopping over in Villiers and ending on the golden beaches of Durban. Along the way AK captured all the bright, bold colours of summer and combined them with performances as fresh as an ice-cold Liqui-Fruit after a long, hot shoot.
And the berry on top? Marrying that beautiful footage with an amapiano remix of Miss Lira’s Feel Good by Prince Kaybee. Now that’s real awesome. Contact Spitfire now to find out how we can make a real difference to your work too.

Creating work for an iconic South African brand like Lucky Star is an opportunity that has to be grabbed with both hands. So when Joe Public called, Katlego Baaitse leapt. And when you’re talking Lucky Star you’re talking great taste, which, as it happens, Katlego has in truckloads.
A storyteller of note, Katlego brought Lucky Star’s Taste of Home to life in a uniquely South African – and a uniquely Katlego – way. Fresh, bright, fun and family, with an extra helping of magic, the commercial was shot over two days in Soweto for extra flavour, and then underscored by an amazing original track by Sun El Musician and Msaki. Great taste? Katlego and Lucky Star are the perfect pairing.
So if your board needs its own unique flavour, and a healthy sprinkling of magic, contact Spitfire to find out how Katlego can make your idea shine on. He could be just the guiding star you’re looking for.

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Katlego Baaitse opens our eyes to something beautiful with a surreal unboxing film of the new OPPO A72 mobile phone.