It was directed by Meg Rickards and starred, among others, Christia Visser, Nse Ikpe-Etim, Brendon Daniels, Dann-Jacques Mouton, Quanita Adams and Lee anne Van Rooi.

Tess tells the story of the sassy eponynmous twenty-year-old who sells her body on Cape Town's streets.

She’s a young woman who is undergoing a tumultuous journey: facing the truth of her childhood, coming to terms with it and moving forward with her inner dignity intact.

She is so unflinchingly honest that your skin itches; you feel her suffering like a punch in the gut and her catharsis like a purging of your own emotional closet.

Tess is a gritty no-holds-barred drama, shot in found locations in a living, breathing handheld style."