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Crafting Compelling Narratives for

the Global Audience

I am Edward Berridge, Founder of Reshape Production, a South African IP development house dedicated to crafting screen-ready original content built for the global market.

With a background in Global Education and Creative Program Design, I specialize in structuring complex, high-concept narratives that bridge authentic African experiences with the structural demands of the international co-production ecosystem—from SVOD platforms to prestige cable networks.

At Reshape Publishing, we create stories rooted in the complexities of the African continent and beyond: narratives that are politically charged, emotionally precise, and fundamentally universal. Every project in our slate is developed from the ground up with clear rights structures and seamless production turnkeys, ensuring streamlined integration for prospective partners.

We provide producers, streaming platforms, commissioners, and literary agents with comprehensive development packages available upon request:

  • Full Series Bibles & Season Arcs

  • Pitch Decks & Pilot Scripts

  • Extensive Treatment Packages

  • Comparative Title & Market Analyses

Current Projects

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Blood of the Earth

The land remembers what the world forgets

BLOOD OF THE EARTH is a 12-episode South African legal thriller and outback mystery about land, lineage, and the visceral price of justice.

When Karoo patriarch Piet van Wyk is murdered on his farm, Doringkraal, elite Sandton attorney Nellie Sibanda inherits half the estate alongside Piet’s estranged granddaughter, Helena. Sent to secure a corporate buyout for Vanguard Energy, Nellie is derailed by somatic visions ignited by the soil. Purged through ancestral rituals (#Ais) and blacklisted after refusing to sell, Nellie returns to the Karoo as an exile. There, she confronts shadow buyer Antoinette Joubert—Helena’s mother, presumed dead for 30 years, who has returned for subterranean mineral rights.

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FOUNDATIONS

Built with Broken Chains

FOUNDATIONS is a 12-episode historical drama and actrion series that examines power, survival, and systemic sabotage at the dawn of colonial Africa.

In the late summer of 1664, within the isolated and brutal outpost of the Cape Colony, a silent network of enslaved, indigenous, and disguised women weaponize their forced domestic invisibility. Operating under the iron fist of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), they orchestrate a quiet, devastating revolution of survival and systemic collapse—dismantling an empire from within the very households built to contain them.

Intercepting vital VOC correspondence, poisoning supply chains, and leveraging intimate domestic secrets, these women transform house chores into espionage, quietly turning the colony's brutal foundations against its oppressors.