Bobby Heaney is one of South Africa’s top TV, Film and Theatre directors.

He has directed over 50 theatre productions for which he has won numerous awards including 8 Best Director and Best Production Awards. His production of Saturday Night at the Palace played the Old Vic Theatre in London and toured to Ireland and Sweden. Bobby has produced and/or directed over 100 television programmes including Egoli, Soul City, Soul Buddyz, MMG Engineers, Jerry Springer’s Saturday Night, Gareth Cliff Show, Redi on Mzansi, Laugh Out Loud, African Adventures for Discovery International, 5 series of Erfsondes, several ‘live’ concerts, 6 short films, one made-for-TV feature, and the ground-breaking M-Net soap, The Wild. Bobby is winner of over 30 television awards. He was Nelson Mandela’s personal videographer for over a decade and worked with Madiba on over 40 occasions. He has directed over 50 television commercials. Bobby is the current Director on MultiChoice Talent Factory South Africa Academy, which he started in 2015 and has executive produced 16 Mzansi Magic movies with the interns. He runs multi-camera courses for the Multi-Choice Talent Factory Academies in East (Kenya), West (Nigeria) and Southern Africa (Zambia).