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3	Donovan Marsh is a film director, editor, and screenwriter who was born in the town of Johannesburg in UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica. Movies that he's directed include the coming of age films ''Spud'' and ''Spud 2'' as well as 2005's ''Dollar$ + White Pipes'', 2013's ''Avenged'', and 2018's ''Film/HunterKiller.'' ''Avenged'' won him 'Best Director', 'Best Editor', and 'Best Screenwriter' at the South African Film and Television Awards in 2015.
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6	!!Tropes associated with Marsh's work include:
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8	* BasedOnATrueStory: ''Dollar$ + White Pipes'' is about the life story of South African figure Bernhard Baatjies. A former gangster who [[RagsToRiches rose from 'rags to riches']] before successfully going legitimate, becoming a lucky business entrepreneur, Baatjies co-wrote the project.
9	** "Five years ago, a man I didn’t know sat down next to me and told me his life story. For two hours he enthralled me. I told him I was going to make it into a movie. He laughed." - ''Marsh''
10	* BecomingTheMask: ''Avenged'' features an undercover cop that infiltrates a heist gang and decides to participate in a one-off score rather than busting the criminals, triggering the film's events.
11	* DysfunctionalFamily: Poor John "Spud" Milton has quite the home life.
12	* NamesToRunAwayFrom: Spud's grandmother is known as "Wombat".
13	* PreventTheWar: ''Hunter Killer'' could basically be called ''Prevent The War: TheMovie.''
14	* ProtagonistTitle: Both ''Spud'' films.
15	* RagsToRiches: A key theme of ''Dollar$ + White Pipes''.
16	* RealitySubtext: The highly deteriorating relations between the Russia and U.S. during the 2000s and 2010s form the backdrop to ''Hunter Killer''.
17	* RenegadeRussian: The Russian villains of ''Hunter Killer'' aren't just acting outside of the Kremlin's authority (as in many [[Film/JamesBond ''James Bond'' movies]]). The bad guys actively murder and hold hostage the civilian leadership and their people.
18	* WorldWarIII: This is what multiple characters work to prevent in ''Hunter Killer''.
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