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Percy Chikwezvero born in 1981 in Morgenster, Zimbabwe. Growing up he fell in love with literature, sculpture, painting and cinematography. He went on obtained a BSc degree in Creative Art and Design at Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe. "Studying literature at school changed the way i perceived things around me. I read Julius Ceaser and translated the passages to pictures and it made me to feel I was Brutus in the play." In 1989 inspired by his father who had been doing it since 1965 but he was not professionally practising it. Percy grew up doing commercial photography at party’s, school trips, and school events. In the year 2001 he began studies in Art which actually paved way for me to proceed to a degree which he finished this year on the 5th of June, and in 2000 got a present from his father, "a Panasonic M7 camera what I can call a VCR with a lens." Moving to South Africa was bumpy, success never came cheap. Started off as a graphic designer in a Printing Shop, and after a year I moved to a production house and worked as a Cameraman and Video Editor in Polokwane. Four years down the line and later moved to LS Design Lab till April 2015. As from 2008 he stopped his studies and later resumed in 2012 but finances were not easy to come by hence it took him nine years to complete a 4 year course.

Percy got involved in scripting for a number of promos from hotel corporate videos to brand activation and later execute offline editing has used Premiere Pro CC, a bit of Final Cut Pro and prefers Davinci Resolve for colour grading. "As a cameraman I have used a Canon 7D, 600D, Sony Nex and a few video cameras. At both these production houses I also set behind the mixing desk where I operated the video switching console to select cameras displaying on live previews for the audience and at the same time managed the whole AV set up from video signal to audio on the cameras."

"Life has taught me to never give up on anything I set my mind on. My goal is to be a DOP, the camera life has given me a good perspective about this industry and I use it to communicate with people around me. It gives me that confidence to shoot and create an aesthetically motivated post production. In my past time I design simple shooting rigs for my shooting."