Meg Rickards

As a writer and director, Meg Rickards is passionate about telling authentic human stories. For her newest feature film Snake, her company Boondogle Films partnered with Known Associates Entertainment. The film is currently streaming on Amazon Prime in Africa. At the height of the Covid pandemic, Meg directed Atlantis, also streaming on Amazon Prime in Africa. Kaalgat Karel, a romantic comedy which she directed as well as co-wrote and produced with Paul Egan released in South African cinemas in 2021. The film was selected for a number of international film festivals including the Boden International Film Festival in Sweden, and won Best Film awards at the Poor Life Choices Comedy Film Festival in Los Angeles, the Gelos Comedy Film Festival in Moscow, the Lit Laughs Festival in the UK, as well as Best Feature Screenplay at Writers Guild of South Africa Muse Awards. Meg’s debut fiction feature, Tess, was released theatrically in South Africa in February 2017. Tess won a number of awards, including the Best South African Film Award at the Durban International Film Festival. It screened at the BRICS International Film Festival in New Delhi, and at the Brussels and Gothenburg International Film Festivals — among many others — and was screened on HBO Eastern Europe. Meg’s miniseries and tele-feature versions of the historical romance Land of Thirst have been broadcast throughout Africa and also distributed in North America, and have been translated into a number of languages. She has also written scripts for UNICEF, and her short film Azure has been used by many NGOs including the World Population Organisation. Meg holds a PHD in Film Studies.