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Ubuntu — A Cape Town Story
A presenter-led documentary from No Excuse Films. Resources for journalists, festivals, distributors and platforms below — for anything else, just get in touch.
Format
Feature documentary
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Filmmakers
Jamie Clark (producer / presenter) & Sam Seeley (director / cinematographer)
Status
In post-production · 2026 release
Logline
"One of the most dangerous cities on Earth. And one of the most loved. We didn't go for the headlines — we went to speak with the people living in them. This is what they told us."
Synopsis
Cape Town is a city of contradictions — postcard beauty and staggering inequality, world-class hospitality and one of the highest violent crime rates on Earth. Most coverage stops at the statistics. Ubuntu — A Cape Town Story goes further.
Filmed across townships, suburbs and the spaces in between, two outsiders — a former UK police officer and a former Royal Marine, both fathers — sit down with the people who actually live this city: families, community workers, gang members, police, faith leaders and survivors. What emerges is harder and more hopeful than the headlines: a story about violence, yes, but also about dignity, community and the southern African idea of ubuntu — "I am because we are".
The filmmakers
Producer · Presenter
Jamie Clark
Former UK police officer turned documentary producer and on-camera presenter. Spent years on the front line of British policing before turning the lens outward to tell stories that go beyond the soundbite.
Director · Cinematographer
Sam Seeley
Former UK Royal Marine Commando. Now a documentary director and cinematographer who's built a career on calm, careful filmmaking in places most cameras don't go.
Lifelong friends. Both have faced danger; both are fathers — parenthood is the shared lens through which they meet every story.
Production company
No Excuse Films is the trading name of No Excuse Films Ltd, an independent UK production company specialising in presenter-led documentary and reality-based content. More at noexcusefilms.co.uk.
Press kit
A full electronic press kit (EPK) — high-res stills, poster artwork, trailer, filmmaker headshots and approved bios — is available on request.
Press contact
For interview requests, festival enquiries, distribution and licensing:
hello@acapetownstory.com