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SALES CATALOGUE
2014
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BETWEEN FRIENDSLength (min): 93Genre: Comedy DramaStatus: Completed Year of completion: 2013Languages in Film: English and isiZuluAvailable Territories: Worldwide except AfricaShort Synopsis: After 7 years, a group of university friends reunite at an upmarket Game Lodge in KZN. Long buries secrets, shared by old friends are eventually exposed, causing tension to arise in current relationships.
Durban International Film Festival
African Diaspora
International Film Festival
HARD TO GET Length (min): 94Genre: Action romanceStatus: Completed Year of completion: 2014Languages in Film: ZuluAvailable Territories: Worldwide except AfricaShort Synopsis: Hard to Get begins in a crowded bar where handsome gigolo TK (Pallance Dladla) works. Skiets (Thishiwe Ziqubu) a strong beautiful out of town petty criminal catches his eye. TK wins her heart but he must undertake one mission which will lead him into the Johannesburg underworld and which will threaten all he has lived and fought for.
Durban International Film Festival
AFRIFF
BFI London Film
Festival
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GHETTO GOBLINLength (min): 73Genre: HorrorStatus: Completed Year of completion: 2013Languages in Film: English/ZuluAvailable Territories: Worldwide Short Synopsis: Strange attacks plague the township’s women, leaving the town leaders at a loss to defend them. At the same time Mthnuzi, a shrewd businessman, is becoming wealthier and more popular with the ladies - something is amiss. The local reverend, Simon Nkosi, learns that Mthunzi is controlling a Tokoloshe to fulfill his greedy desires.
Durban International Film Festival
Pan African Film Festival
KykNetBest Film
Nashville Film festival AFRIFF
Hole in the Head San Francisco
KykNetBest Director
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FAAN SE TREINLength (min): 115Genre: DramaStatus: Completed Year of completion: 2014Languages in Film: AfrikaansAvailable Territories: Worldwide except AfricaShort Synopsis: Faan, a simple minded man living in a tiny Karoo community, and his love of trains. The town is divided about Faan. Some feel threatened by him others feel he is harmless. Things come to a head when Faan’s aged father, Frik, is awarded the contract to build the town dam only to fall terminally ill before the work is completed. Beatrice, the Doctor’s wife, overcome by desire for Faan’s inheritance sets out on a scheme that nearly results in the loss of her life at the hands of Faan.
KykNetBest lead
Actor
GOG’ HELENLength (min): 75Genre: Action/ComedyStatus: Completed Year of completion: 2012Languages in Film: English/Zulu Available Territories: WorldwideShort Synopsis: Gog’Helen lives a forgotten life in a shantytown until she and her granddaughter Agnes become sucked into a life-and- death race. In a gesture of goodwill the unsuspecting Agnes buys granny a new mattress but also throws away the old one without Gogo’s knowledge. What Agnes doesn’t know is that inside the mattress is her grandmother’s life savings!
Durban International Film Festival
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TEENAGE GAMESLength (min): 60Genre: DramaStatus: Completed Year of completion: 2013Languages in Film: English and ZuluAvailable Territories: Worldwide except Africa pay TVShort Synopsis: Paul a young intelligent boy from Limpopo had everything it took to become an outstanding personality but ruined it all buy indulging in secret activities strictly meant for adults.
Pan African Film Festival
SALES CATALOGUE 2014DOCUMENTARY RELEASES
PRISONER 467:64Length (min): 53Genre: Politics, History, BiopicStatus: Completed Year of completion: 2014Languages in Film: English, Zulu, SothoAvailable Territories: WorldwideShort Synopsis: Andrew Mlangeni, the 11th accused in the infamous Rivonia Trial, escaped the death penalty to spend 26 years on Robben Island in the cell next door to Nelson Mandela.
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UNHINGED: SURVIVING JO’BURGLength (min): 52Genre: Travel comedyStatus: Completed Year of completion: 2010Languages in Film: EnglishAvailable Territories: Worldwide except South Africa Free to AirShort Synopsis: Unhinged: Surviving Jo’burg is an honest, quirky and sometimes frenzied documentary about Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city and the world’s gateway to Southern Africa.
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in Motion
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THE BOY THE BLADE THE MANLength (min): 85Genre: Social issue Status: In post production Release date: April 2015Languages in Film: English and XhosaShort Synopsis: In my culture being circumcised makes you man. At the age of 18 I went up the mountain to be circumcised, but now 15 years later I’m faced with the choice as to whether I circumcise my son traditionally the way I did or I follow the modern society and take him to hospital. Over the past 5 years more than 500 boys have died and 100 more have lost their penises. This film explores the complexities of a custom that has shaped many men but has killed many boys.
POP, LOCK ’N ROLLGenre: Dance dramaStatus: In development Release date: September 2015Languages in Film: EnglishShort Synopsis: A dance film loaded with a love story and set in the club scene in Cape Town. It’s a feel good rags to riches film about Raps, a gifted young dancer from the Cape Flats who thinks all he needs is fame and money, but it all gets complicated when he falls in love with the gorgeous young wife of the gangster-come-producer who’s making his career happen.
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ADERALength (min): 104Genre: DramaYear of completion: 2009Languages in Film: Amharic/EnglishAvailable Territories: WorldwideShort Synopsis: The story of an Ethiopian woman’s plight in South Africa as she struggles to earn enough money to support and return to her children in Ethiopia.
ZERO ONE ONELength (min): 60Genre: Black Comedy / DramaYear of completion: 2009Languages in Film: English, ZuluAvailable Territories: WorldwideShort Synopsis: Three friends; Thebe, Max and Gift master a very unnecessary plan to sell cocaine at Friday night’s pimps and hoes party. But between getting high on their own supply, giving freebies to the ladies and general debauchery, their cunning plan goes up their noses and into insanity. How will they pay back Shaka the money they owe him for the drugs by morning?
THE LISTLength (min): 60 Genre: Comedy DramaYear of completion: 2009Languages in Film: English, ZuluAvailable Territories: WorldwideShort Synopsis: “The List” is the story of Lesego Thambo, an over-achieving, cheese-boy, who’s just turned twenty-five and already ticked everything off his list of life goals. This is his quarter life crisis.
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festivals
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