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SALES CATALOGUE 2014 NEW RELEASES Durban International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
AFRIFF
HARD TO GET
Length (min): 94 Genre: Action romance Status: Completed Year of completion: 2014 Languages in Film: Zulu Available Territories: Worldwide except Africa Short 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
African Diaspora International Film Festival
BETWEEN FRIENDS
Length (min): 93 Genre: Comedy Drama Status: Completed Year of completion: 2013 Languages in Film: English and isiZulu Available Territories: Worldwide except Africa Short 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.
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SALES CATALOGUE 2014 NEW RELEASES Pan African Film Festival
Hole in the Head San Francisco
Nashville Film festival
AFRIFF
Durban International Film Festival
GHETTO GOBLIN
Length (min): 73 Genre: Horror Status: Completed Year of completion: 2013 Languages in Film: English/Zulu Available 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.
KykNet Best Film
KykNet Best Director
KykNet Best lead Actor
FAAN SE TREIN
Length (min): 115 Genre: Drama Status: Completed Year of completion: 2014 Languages in Film: Afrikaans Available Territories: Worldwide except Africa Short 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.
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SALES CATALOGUE 2014 NEW FICTION RELEASES
Durban International Film Festival
Pan African Film Festival
GOG’ HELEN
Length (min): 75 Genre: Action/Comedy Status: Completed Year of completion: 2012 Languages in Film: English/Zulu Available Territories: Worldwide Short 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!
TEENAGE GAMES
Length (min): 60 Genre: Drama Status: Completed Year of completion: 2013 Languages in Film: English and Zulu Available Territories: Worldwide except Africa pay TV Short 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.
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SALES CATALOGUE 2014 DOCUMENTARY RELEASES Official Selection Africa in Motion
PRISONER 467:64
Length (min): 53 Genre: Politics, History, Biopic Status: Completed Year of completion: 2014 Languages in Film: English, Zulu, Sotho Available Territories: Worldwide Short 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.
UNHINGED: SURVIVING JO’BURG
Length (min): 52 Genre: Travel comedy Status: Completed Year of completion: 2010 Languages in Film: English Available Territories: Worldwide except South Africa Free to Air Short 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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SALES CATALOGUE 2014 IN-PRODUCTION
THE BOY THE BLADE THE MAN
Length (min): 85 Genre: Social issue Status: In post production Release date: April 2015 Languages in Film: English and Xhosa Short 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 ROLL
Genre: Dance drama Status: In development Release date: September 2015 Languages in Film: English Short 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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SALES CATALOGUE 2014 FICTION LIBRARY
Official selection 16 international festivals
ADERA
Length (min): 104 Genre: Drama Year of completion: 2009 Languages in Film: Amharic/English Available Territories: Worldwide Short 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 ONE
Length (min): 60 Genre: Black Comedy / Drama Year of completion: 2009 Languages in Film: English, Zulu Available Territories: Worldwide Short 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 LIST
Length (min): 60 Genre: Comedy Drama Year of completion: 2009 Languages in Film: English, Zulu Available Territories: Worldwide Short 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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