Project

Lexington Mabaso 2026

Film

Title: Lexington Mabaso

Screenwriters: John Barker and Philip Roberts

Genre: Road Movie

Tagline: That old magic touch

Prod Company: USA/SA co pro KAE/Sniper Films/ a Barking Rat film 

When Lexington Mabaso, an award-winning South African journalist, now way past his best work is offered a prestige assignment in New York City, he grabs it with both hands, to revive his flagging career with some old school insightful journalism, but when the story turns out to be nothing but a humiliating puff piece, Lexington’s pride gets in the way and he’s left stranded and broke in the Big Apple until an unlikely source offers him one last chance at redemption and he sets out in a rusty 1959 Chevy Biscayne on a road trip to Burning Man with a mystery to solve – a man on a mission.

About John Barker

Writer/Director/Producer, known for his
directorial debut film Bunny Chow.