Helena Spring Filmography

Occupation:: Associate Producer, Executive Producer, Producer

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Prey

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bridget Moynahan, Peter Weller, Jamie Bartlett, Carly Schroeder

Synopsis: An American family on vacation in Africa are stalked by lions after becoming lost in a game reserve in director Darrell James Roodt's fierce, wilderness-based thriller. Bridget Moynahan and Peter Weller star in a film produced by Videovision Entertainment and released to stateside screens by The Read More

2007
Faith's Corner

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leleti Khumalo, Thobani Khybeka, Sibonelo Xulu, Ivy Nkutha

Synopsis: Controversial South African helmer Darrell James Roodt (Sarafina!, Yesterday), writes and directs the experimental melodrama Faith's Corner. The effort (which recalls and suggests influence by Ousmane Sembene's 1966 Borom Sarret) weaves the tale of an impoverished mother named Faith (Leleti Read More

2006
Yesterday

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leleti Khumalo, Lihle Mvelase, Kenneth Kambule, Harriet Lehabe, Camilla Walker

Synopsis: A impoverished young mother with few creature comforts but an unbreakable spirit determines to see that her growing daughter receives an education after suffering a crippling setback in this affecting drama from director Darrell James Roodt. Yesterday's family is poor, and despite the daily toil Read More

2004
Red Dust

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hilary Swank, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jamie Bartlett, Marius Weyers, Ian Roberts

Synopsis: A dedicated human rights lawyer and a political activist who suffered at the hands of South African police officer with no regard for human life finds that the only thing more dangerous than standing up for your beliefs is the discovery of the truth in director Tom Hooper's adaptation of Gillian Slovo Read More

2004
The Long Run

Crew: Producer

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Nthati Moshesh

Synopsis: An elderly man tries to achieve one of his greatest ambitions by turning a rank amateur into a champion in this drama. German-born Bertold Bohmer (Armin Mueller-Stahl) was a competitive distance runner in his youth who had one great dream -- to win the Comrades Marathon, a punishing 54-mile race Read More

5/4/01
Mr. Bones

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leon Schuster, David Ramsey, Faizon Love, Robert Whitehead, Jane Benney

Synopsis: What would happen if a white child with a couple of odd talents -- one prophetic and one malodorous -- was found and raised by an appreciative, yet hapless African tribe? South African director Gray Hofmeyr attempts to find out in his 2002 family-oriented comedy entitled Mr. Bones. Shortly after Read More

2001
Get Real

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain, Stacy A. Hart, Kate McEnery

Synopsis: This gay coming-of-age drama from Britain was screened at many film festivals including Toronto, Edinburgh, and the 1999 Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema section). It tells the story of 16-year-old Steven (Ben Silverstone), a boy who can't tell anyone of his sexual preference except an Read More

4/30/99
The Theory of Flight

Crew: Producer

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Gemma Jones, Holly Aird, Ray Stevenson

Synopsis: Continuing cinema's fascination with bringing the stories of handicaps and the mentally challenged to the big screen (Rain Man, My Left Foot, Shine, etc.), here comes a low-budget film about the unlikely love story of people brought together by fate, as well as 120 hours of community service. As a Read More

12/23/98
Dangerous Ground

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Ice Cube, Elizabeth Hurley, Ving Rhames, Eric Miyeni

Synopsis: In this drama, a South African exile returns to his homeland to find that justice hasn't brought peace. Vusi Madlazi (Ice Cube) is a student and political activist living in San Francisco; he was born in South Africa, but his connection to anti-apartheid rebels made his family fear for his life Read More

1997
Face

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Steven Waddington, Philip Davis, Damon Albarn

Synopsis: Five criminals with varying degrees of experience are brought together and torn apart by a major robbery in this hard-edged British drama. Ray (Robert Carlyle) was once a leftist political activist whose ideals were dashed by England's increasing political conservatism, while his close friend Dave Read More

1997
The Mangler

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A hellish piece of professional laundry equipment wreaks havoc in a tiny New England town in this horror film. It all begins in The Blue Ribbon Laundry, a place run by the ruthless, crippled old Bill Gartley. With no feelings at all for his employees, he demands absolute obedience and unrelenting Read More

1995
Cry, the Beloved Country

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Vusi Kunene, Leleti Khumalo, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Alan Paton's classic novel about two fathers coming to terms with personal loss and the emotional scars inflicted on South Africa during the era of apartheid was brought to the screen for a second time with this adaptation, the first major film produced in South Africa after Nelson Mandela's Read More

1995
Sarafina!

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba, John Kani, Mbongeni Ngema

Synopsis: Whoopi Goldberg stars in this musical take on the South African struggles against Apartheid in the mid-1970s, during the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. An adaptation of Mbongeni Ngema's popular musical, which ran on Broadway from 1988 to 1989, Sarafina! recounts the political coming of age of the Read More

9/18/92
American Kickboxer

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Barrett, Keith Vitali, Brad Morris, Terry Norton, Ted Le Platt

Synopsis: After spending his time in jail for manslaughter, a formal world-champion kick boxer B.J. Quinn (John Barrett) is released after doing time and sets out to regain his former stature as a top-notch fighter. Unfortunately he begins his comeback at a drunken party (he's drunk) and he tangles with the Read More

1991