Finding Optel is a sweet crime caper and directorial debut for brother and sister duo, Jesse Brown and Mikayla Joy Brown, who also stars as Claire Abrahams. Claire runs a lost and found service where she locates anything and everything that has been misplaced. When Optel, the community dog, goes missing, Claire must confront her brother’s painful disappearance in order to solve her biggest case yet.

Finding Optel has just had its international premiere at The BFI London Film Festival, which describes the film as “heart-warming … a quirky detective story that skilfully tackles childhood grief.”

Finding Optel had its South African premiere at the kykNET Silwerskerm Festival in August, where the whimsical detective story received a standing ovation, a nomination for Paul Guyeu’s cinematography, and the Best Production Design award for Sumaya Wicomb.

Award winners Quanita Adams and Dominique Jossie are producing through Blended Films, which won four Silwerskerm awards last year for Hier.Na and our actress, Liza Scholtz, can be seen as Claire's mom.

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