Girl From Nowhere

Mark Jackson shot this movie in 13 days on a budget of R300,000, which is $22,000 or £16,200, with a crew of just six people. Despite its quick shoot, post-production lasted three years.

The Cedarberg region of South Africa's Western Cape where this movie was filmed was named after the Clanwilliam cedar, which used to be abundant in the Cedarberg mountains, but are unfortunately a rare sight today. They are now a critically-endangered species on the brink of extinction after decades of unsustainable harvesting for their beautiful, long-lasting, fragrant timber.

Christia Visser was born on 2 March 1992 in Stellenbosch, Cape Town, a port city on South Africa's southwest coast, on a peninsula beneath the imposing Table Mountain. She is an Afrikaans-speaking South African actress best known for her starring role as Lillie Human, a mysterious girl Tom meets in a field, in the kyk(look) Net drama series Die Boekklub (The Book Club), her first starring role in television. She attended Höerskool Stellenbosch (Stellenbosch High School), then studied acting for film at ACT Cape Town from 2011-2012 under such luminaries as Denise Newman and Sean Cameron Mitchell.

Christia Visser used a body double (Avina Du Toit) for the more risqué scenes in the film. The Afrikaaners, a South African group of people descended from the 17th century Dutch, German, and French settlers to South Africa, slowly developed their own language, (which is a mixture of the three languages), and culture when they came into contact with the Africans and Asians. They are well known in South Africa for their prudish behaviour.

The reason Mark Jackson was able to complete the movie in 13 days with just a crew of six people, was that he filmed it himself with a hand-held camera and had storyboarded the entire script.