Marina du Toit

Marina du Toit was born in Pretoria, South Africa. At the age of 15 she discovered that she loved the energy of television production and decided to pursue a career in the local TV & Film industry. Since starting her professional editing career as a junior editor in Johannesburg, she has edited a variety of documentary, current affairs, travel, wildlife, promotional, true crime and corporate programmes, which were aired on National Geography, Netflix, Al Jazeera, e.tv, Africa Magic, SABC, kykNET, Fox Crime Africa, Smithsonian Earth and the eNews Channel, as well as at various film festivals all over the world. Some highlights include Return to the USS Atlanta: Defender of Guadalcanal (winner of the Spirit of Independents Award at the 2012 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival), several crime documentaries for Case Files Africa, Caught in the Act Series 4, These Streets belong to us, China Faces and Places and Curse of the Nobody People, which was the winner of a CNN Multichoice African Journalist Award. She has a BA in Visual Studies from the University of Pretoria, as well as a BA Honours in Film Theory and Practice from the University of Cape Town. In 2012 she moved to Cape Town, South Africa.