Company Profile

Kalahari Pictures is the film production company partnership of South African, Steven St. Arnaud and American, Michael Murphey.

The partnership of Steven St. Arnaud and Michael Murphey is unique among the South African services companies in that it pools the expertise of a highly experienced South African commercials producer and a veteran US movie producer, to form a company that understands the needs and concerns of foreign producers better than most.

Steven St. Arnaud

Steven St. Arnaud has more than twelve years of experience in the commercials industry and has worked on long-form projects for the last eight years. He's one of South Africa's most experienced and well regarded commercials producers, working with top international production companies from most every corner of the earth on spots for big brands such as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Honda, Acuvue, Swisscom plus many others. He is also one of South Africa's strongest production managers of long-form projects.

Michael Murphey

Michael Murphey is an American feature-film and television producer with over twenty years of experience behind him. He has produced over thirty film and television projects, including two on Variety’s list of Hollywood’s top grossing movies, “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street II”.

Michael Murphey first came to South Africa in 1994 to produce “Kickboxer 5” and has since returned to film various other projects including “From Dusk Till Dawn – The Hangman’s Daughter” and “Texas Blood Money” for Miramax. Most recently he co-produced “The Triangle” for Electric Entertainment and the SciFi Channel and produced “The Librarian – The Return to King Solomon’s Mine” for Electric Entertainment and TNT.

Murphey previously served as the representative of the completion bond company, Film Finances, on numerous large-budget feature films shot in Sub-Saharan Africa.