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title: "20 Questions with Joel Seboa"
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# 20 Questions with Joel Seboa

> Meet Joel Seboa, a 20-something film and media graduate from UCT, Joel’s edit reel spans Curro Holdings, Expresso, SABC, Audi and Suzuki, with a few short films stitched in between. But the real thread? Using video to give people a voice and nudge the world, frame by frame.

By Daily Maverick · Published 6 May 2026, 16:42 SAST

## Key points
- Video editor Joel Seboa answers 20 questions for Maverick Insiders.

## Content

**Favourite book. Of all time and recently?**

I have recently been enjoying The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. As for my favourite of all time, it’s Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

**Favourite film. Of all time and recently?**

This is always a tough question to answer with friends around a braai. As a film buff, the answer changes day by day, but I will say Grand Budapest Hotel and Tropic Thunder.

**Favourite series. Of all time and recently?**

Being a typical Gen Z, I grew up watching anime and fell in love with storytelling through animation. My favourite of all time is Naruto (yes, all of them). I somehow missed the Stranger Things hype when it came out, so I am watching that now.

**What is the most random thing you’ve ordered online?**

A Glatzan bald cap (don’t ask me why, lol).

**What is the last thing on your phone that you took a screenshot of?**

An EVA Foam Katana (links to the bald cap).

**What app do you spend the most time on?**

Instagram (to my detriment).

**What’s your favourite piece of trivia?**

Cleopatra lived closer to the iPhone than the building of the pyramids.

**What’s the weirdest superstition you secretly believe in?**

That if you purchase shoes or socks for someone you care for, they will walk out of your life.

**If you could relive one specific experience, what would it be?**

Going to Japan for the first time. In the words of the late Anthony Bourdain: “It fundamentally changes your perspective on the world.”

**Window seat or aisle seat?**

Aisle seat in case I need to run to the toilet.

**If you could live as someone else for the day, who would it be and why?**

Wes Anderson. To get inside his mind and understand what he thinks about when composing, writing and directing his films. Somehow he always finds a way for all these different film elements to work together.

**Career highlight?**

When I worked for the Expresso morning show and SABC. Meeting South African politicians and South African icon Zapiro is definitely up there as well.

**What are people always surprised to learn about you?**

That I work for Daily Maverick and that I cosplay in my spare time.

**You’ve just been arrested. What crime were you likely to have committed?**

Watching anime online without a subscription.

**If you weren’t working in your current role, what industry would you be in?**

Probably in the media space, whether it’s social media or television.

**What is the most-worn item in your wardrobe?**

It has to be my 2013/14 signed Manchester City shirt. Up The Blues!!

**What’s the best advice you’ve received?**

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

**Name one person you admire?**

Pep Guardiola.

**What’s your current guilty pleasure?**

Playing roguelikes, watching football and thinking up short films (in that order).