Baxu and the Giants is a 2019 Namibian 29-minute bilingual short fiction film directed by Florian Schott.

The film was produced by Andrew Botelle of MaMoKoBo Video and Research and was co-written and co-produced by Girley Jazama and directed, co-written and co-produced by Florian Schott.

It was commissioned by the Legal Assistance Centre of Namibia and funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Germany.

The brief was ‘to produce a film that sensitises teenagers about wildlife crime in Namibia' and the film aims to bring light to the ongoing and important issue of rhino poaching in Southern Africa.

Although the primary audience for the short film is the youth, the content is relevant to individuals of all ages, communities, and organisations affected by poaching, as well as general audiences around the world.

Writers Florian Schott and Girley Jazama chose to tell the story from the inside out - through the eyes of an innocent but toughened-by-life 9-year-old who is deeply rooted in nature and her own heritage. In fact, the name Baxu is short for "!Hubaxu", which means "I come from the soil".

Through this storytelling device which spans time between the age of hunters and gatherers until today, the aim is to reach an audience worldwide and for audiences to understand some of the underlying social issues in rural Namibia that can lead to poaching.

The film stars Camilla Jo-Ann Daries, Wafeeq /Narimab, Anna Louw, Steven Afrikaner, Robert Hara#gaeb, West Uarije and Ashwyn Mberi.

The film was regarded as one of the most anticipated Namibian films of 2019. It had its World Premiere on the 14th of September 2019 at the San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival, where it won the ‘Best Foreign Narrative” award, before being released in Windhoek, Namibia on 19 September 2019 at Ster-Kinekor Grove Mall. It is the first Namibian film to stream on Netflix from the 30th of September 2020 The streaming giant has a reach of over 190 countries around the world with more than 192 million subscribers.

It received critical acclaim for directing, acting, editing, production design and cinematography. The film was screened at numerous international film festivals and won several awards and nominations.