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| WINNIE | Darrel James Roodt | ||
| THE SISTERS | Adaptation of James Joyce's "Women In Love" | ||
| BLUE CRUSH | |||
| VERDACHT | |||
| DIE MINENSUCHERIN | |||
| ZAMBEZIA | Animated Feature film, written by Andrew Cook, Anthony Silverstone Raffaella Delle Donne | Wayne Thornley | Triggerfish Productions Cape Town |
| SNIPER-RELOADED | "SNIPER: RELOADED" is the fourth installment of the ‘Sniper’ franchise, following further adventures of a fictional US Marine specialist, played by Chad Collins, with Billy Zane, Annabel Wright, Richard Sammel. | Claudio Faeh | Producer: Peter Nelson for Screen Gems, Sony Pictures [Nina Heyns: Film Afrika] |
| A MILLION COLOURS | This home-grown feature film is based on the lives of Muntu Ndebele and Norman Knox, the child-stars of the 1975 South African feature film e'Lollipop (aka Forever Young, Forever Free) .Lead Cast : Wandile Molebatsi, Jason Hartman, Stelio Savante |
Peter Bishai | Andre Pieterse, Cloverleaf Films |
| KIDNAP & RANSOM | The film examines the growth industry of international hostage taking. K&R promises to be more than just another well-made BBC crime mini series - the moral dilemma faced by negotiators is very real and quite topical. | Andy Wilson | Producer: Trevor Hopkins for Projector Pictures / BBC [Out of Africa Entertainment, CT] |
| AFRICA UNITED | A heartwarming story about
a group of kids trying to get from Rwanda to South Africa for the Soccer
world cup. Three friends set off to take part in trials to be in the opening
ceremony – only to get on the wrong bus and start the
journey of a life time. Locations: Rwanda, Kenia, Zambia, Uganda, Johannesburg |
Debs Gardner | Footprint Films (UK) in association with Pathe International, Link Media, BBC, National Geographic and Out of Africa Films. [Out of Africa Entertainment, Jhb.] |
| PROTECT THE NATION | Sizwe (8), tries to find the good in the people around him. He witnesses Xenophobic attacks and gets drawn into them, but a strange twist of fate forces him to face his actions and do some soul searching. | Candice Reisser | Niama Filmproduktion, Stuttgart [Enigma Films, Cape Town] |
| STRIKE BACK | An SAS sortie into Iraq goes badly wrong when the commanding officer believes he has caused the death of his comrades. Given a chance to redeem himself, our flawed hero returns to Iraq on a rescue mission. | Daniel Percival Ed Hall |
Andrew Benton [Out of Africa, Jhb.] |
| THE SINKING OF THE LACONIA | In 1942 a Cunard liner requisitioned for war service was torpedoed and sunk by a U-Boat in the south Atlantic while carrying nearly three thousand people, including some 1800 Italian prisoners of war. The U-Boat launched a major attempt to rescue survivors sending a distress call in plain English. The British could do nothing, and the Americans sent a Liberator Bomber from a secret base on Ascension Island to attack the rescuing submarines. | Uwe Janson | Teamworx (Germany) & Talkback Thames (Uk) [Two Oceans Productions] |
| THEMBA | The Eastern Cape countryside – a picture-postcard area of South Africa - hides a reality that is far from idyllic. The land and it’s people are scarred by Aids and poverty, education is minimal, work and food are practically non-existant. We follow young Themba and his family as they struggle to come to terms with enduring hardships, alleviated by his skill as a soccer player. | Stephanie Sycholt |
German co-production with DO Productions as THEMBA PICTURES (PTY) LTD Brigid Olen / Carole Prentice |
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| THE MATING GAME (Airs from February 2010) |
13 part TV Drama series. Set in contemporary Johannesburg, a friendship between three women from vastly different backgrounds is strengthened by a search for love. It’s social realism writ large with a twist of humour. Written by Anita Khanna | Alex Yazbek Amanda Lane Neal Sundstrom |
Anita Khanna & Walter Ayers Uhuru Productions for SABC 2 |
| INVICTUS | The
film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces
with the captain of South Africa's Springbok rugby team to
help unite their country. Starring: Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon Adapted by Anthony Peckham from John Carlin's book "Playing The Enemy" |
Clint Eastwood | Studio:
Warner Bros. Pictures [Genevieve Hofmeyr for Moonlighting Film Makers] |
| THROUGH AFRICA IN A BRIDAL DRESS | The discovery of a legendary sacred diamond "The Nebula of Namanga" leads to a rambunctious chase across an African country involving a motley collection of bad guys, an innocent Missionary, vulnerable orphans - and a jilted German bride who bumps into her first love now drifting around the African bush trying to do good. | Sebastian Vigg |
Action Concept Film und Stuntproducktion GmbH [Meryl Schutte for Film Afrika] |
| THEMBA | The Eastern Cape countryside – a picture-postcard area of South Africa - hides a reality that is far from idyllic. The land and it’s people are scarred by Aids and poverty, education is minimal, work and food are practically non-existant. We follow young Themba and his family as they struggle to come to terms with enduring hardships, alleviated by his skill as a soccer player. | Stephanie Sycholt |
German co-production with DO Productions as THEMBA PICTURES (PTY) LTD Brigid Olen / Carole Prentice |
| BUSH STATION | Anne is a doctor working at a small Bush clinic in Africa. When her estranged husband, Martin, comes to see her there, he gets a lot more involved than he hoped to be, both at the clinic in his personal life. | Axel Bart | German Co-production [Theuns de Wet for Film Afrika] |
| MRS MANDELA | The life and hard times of Winnie Mandela, ex wife of Nelson Mandela, starring Sophie Okonedo as Winnie and David Harewood as Nelson Mandela | Michael Samuels, from his own script | Diverse
Productions UK for BBC Drama [Out Of Africa Picture Company] |
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SUMMER IN |
South African actress Eloise Cupoido, who has already acted in English, Afrikaans, and French , adds another German role to her repertoire! | Sybille Tafel |
Ruben Engel |
| MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS | Screenplay
by Nicky Rebelo, adapted from the play by Athol Fugard Cast: Frankie Highmore (Hally), Ving Rhames (Sam), Patrick Mofokeng (Willy) |
Lonny Price | Malcolm
Kohll UK. [Spier Films] |
| SONG FOR THREE WOMEN | A truly family affair! Revel Fox directs his real life wife and daughter, Roberta Fox and Sannie Fox with singer Busi Mhlongo in a drama charting the reconstruction of a family destroyed by addiction. | Revel Fox | Shadowy
Meadows: Florian Schatthauer Jyoti Mistry-Schatthauer |
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| ANGEL | Two-Part mini-series set in an oil-rich African country, shooting in Johannesburg & Kwa Zulu-Natal | David Attwood | Susie
Liggat for Tiger Aspect (UK) for BBC [Meryl Schutte for Film Afrika] |
| HOND SE DINGES, HOND
SE DAG (Every Dog has his Day) Release 20 March 2009 |
Veteran South African Producer Johan Heyns makes his Directorial debut with a robust, raunchy, rollicking adventure with acutely observed characterisation. Set largely in a small South African town. | Johan Heyns | Johan Heyns Fevertree Productions |
| WHITE LIGHT (Released Dec 2008, achieved Golden Film status in Holland) |
Deals with the Child Soldier issue. Filming in Uganda and in Port St. Johns, on the east coast of South Africa. | Jean van de Velde | Richard Claus (Holland) |
| Mr. BONES GOES TO
DURBAN (Released Dec 2008 - First weekend out-grossed James Bond) |
Further adventures of Leon Schuster's alter-ego in his
own - very popular - brand of comedy... Location: Johannesburg & Durban |
Gray Hofmeyr | Helena Spring for Videovision Entertainment (RSA) |
| SCHWEITZER | Fictionalised account of a period in Albert Schweitzer's life when he endured an American-led campaign to discredit him due to his involvement with Einstein's objection to developing the atomic bomb. | Giselher Venzke, Two Oceans Productions, Cape Town | |
| CILLA
- QUEEN of AFRICA |
From across the world, Coronation Street's "mother from hell" bullies her way into ten Million UK households again. | (Coronation Street Christmas Special for DVD release) | |
| CRUSOE | Thirteen episode TV series, based on the legendary novel by Daniel Defoe, this is the tale of Robinson Crusoe, a young man who is shipwrecked on a remote tropical island for 28 years. Sean Bean, Sam Neill, with Philip Winchester as Crusoe. | Duane Clark | Justin
Bodle (Power, UK), Michael Prupas (Muse) for NBC [Genevieve Hofmeyr for Moonlighting Film Makers] |
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| END GAME (Released on BBC TV |
Behind the scenes during the lead up to Nelson Mandela’s release from prison a Political game was played for very high stakes. Based on the book “The Fall of Apartheid” by Robert Harvey. William Hurt playing Professor Willie Esterhuyse and Chiwetel Ejiofor taking on Thabo Mbeki. Shooting based in Cape Town and partly in the UK | Pete Travis (“Vantage Point”) |
Hal Vogel - Mentorn
Media Ltd David Aukin, Executive Producer [Nina Heyns - Film Afrika] |
| ROOIBOS
MIT MILCH (Shooting completed) |
A
neuroscientist, Ella, returns from self-exile in Germany to the Rooibos
tea farm where she was born. The funeral of her sister forces Ella (Hannelore Hoger)
to confront a story she has been running away from most of her life - a
story of interracial love and friendship in Apartheid South
Africa - and also of the indelible links between mothers and their
children. Location: Clanwilliam & environs. (Cape) |
Rainer Kaufmann | Selma
Brenner - UFA for ZDF (Germany) [Marlow de Mardt-DO Productions South Africa] |
| GENERATION
KILL
(Released on HBO)
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Seven part Miniseries for HBO based on the book by Evan Wright. Tells the story of Bravo Company, First Recon Batallion, who spearheaded the invasion of Iraq and earned the nickname "First Suicide Batallion" | Susannah White (Eps 1-3 +Ep7) Simon Cellan-Jones (Eps 4-6) |
Company
Pictures UK for HBO [The Out Of Africa Picture Company] |
| ROUGH (Released as "DIAMONDS") |
The lure of great wealth underpins the illegal diamond trade. We follow several story lines of people whose lives are dependent on, dictated to and controlled by these infinitely desirable precious stones. | Andy Wilson | Co Production UK/Canada/SA Sienna Films Toronto & Philo Films SA |
| SKIN | The true story of Sandra Laing, a coloured child born in the 1950s to two white Afrikaners who were ignorant of their black ancestry. The film follows Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world . | Anthony Fabian | Elysian Films
Margaret Matheson for Bard Entertainments [Genevieve Hofmeyr & Phumi Mashigofor Moonlighting Film Makers] |
| SURPRISE (Gouwden Kalf Award 2008) |
Just before his wedding, a world-famous Director is confronted with an African teenager who claims to be his daughter. To find proof, he travels back with her to the place where he once shot a "Help Africa" commercial and arrives as a rebellion is breaking out. | Paul Ruven | Palazzina
/ Dutch Mountains [Endemol South Africa] |
| THE
DEAL (Sundance January 2008) |
Meg Ryan & William H. Macy in a romantic comedy /somewhat cynical spoof on international film production, set partly in South Africa. Screenplay by William H. Macy & Steven Schachter. | Steven Schachter |
DogPond/Sydnyk
Works & Muse Entertainment.
[Moonlighting Film Makers]
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| 10,000
YEARS BC (Worldwide release 8th March 2008) |
Roland
Emmerich's (Independence
Day, The Day After
Tomorrow) new epic adventure movie. Casting in South
Africa and Egypt
so far for principal photography in New Zealand & Namibia. |
Roland Emmerich | Michael
Wimer / Sony Pictures [Christian Sawyer at Moonlighting Film Makers] |
| July 2008 |
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| THE WORLD UNSEEN | From the novel by by Shamim Sarif. The world of a ttraditional young Indian mother is turned upside down.when she meets the rebellious Amina who confounds the Indian community by driving a taxi and setting up a cafe with a black man. | SHAMIM SARIF | DO
Productions Co-Production TBA |
| MORE THAN JUST A GAME |
A “doccie-drama”
(flash-back / reconstruction) telling the story of the formation of a
highly organized soccer league on Robben Island during the early
1960’s.
FIFA rules were
adhered to and the seriousness with which they
approached the game underpinned the social impact that it had on prison
life.
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JUNAID AHMED | Video
Vision (Helena Spring / Anant Singh) |
| THE DEAL | Meg Ryan & William H. Macy in a romantic comedy /somewhat cynical spoof on international film production, set partly in South Africa. Screenplay by William H. Macy & Steven Schachter. | Steven Schachter |
DogPond/Sydnyk
Works & Muse Entertainment.
[Moonlighting Film Makers]
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| DOOMSDAY | Post-Apocalyptic thriller set in a virus-ravaged Scotland in the year 2038. Script by Neil Marshall | Neil Marshall | Benedict
Carver
/ Peter McAleese (Rogue Pictures, UK) [Moonlighting Film Makers, Cape Town] |
| LES DEUX MONDES | Leading French comedic actor, BENOIT POELVOORDE plays the role of Remy, a suburban husband who runs into one set back after another in his career as an art restorer. He escapes from his troubles into a whacky world of his own, but eventually learns to take control of his life. | Daniel Cohen |
Two Worlds Productions
/ Mnp Entreprise / Gaumont |
| LULLABY | A deeply caring mother leaves an easy life in America to rescue her drug-addicted son from Nigerian Drug Lords in Johannesburg's tough cosmopolitan Hillbrow area. Script by Norman Milborrow. | Darrel James Roodt | Gold Studios, Anton Ernst / Kerry Gregg |
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SHAKE
HANDS
WITH THE DEVIL
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A
film adaptation of the
Romeo Dallaire autobiography Shake Hands with the Devil. The book
details
the personal journey of Dallaire through the 1994 Rwandan genocide and
how
Dallaire's request for more aid went ignored by the United Nations.
Shot
on location in Rwanda |
Roger
Spottiswoode |
Dalliere
Productions / Halifax Film Company, Canada |
| JOZI-H | Gritty TV drama series set in a busy Johannesburg hospital | Anne Wheeler Kelly Makin George Mihalka Alfons Adetuyi Thabang Moleya Dumisani Phakathi Revel Fox Neal Sundstrom |
Co-Production - Morula Pictures [RSA] Inner City Films [Canada] |
| PRIMEVAL | Horror story set in Rwanda, central Africa | Michael Katleman | Wyatt Film
Productions [USA] [Film Hiring Services - RSA] |
| ER in Africa |
Popular US TV
series. Episodes
dealing with the crisis in Sudan |
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| COUP! |
Based on the
abortive attempt by
British mercenary Simon Mann, with the alleged help of Mark Thatcher,
to carry out a Coup 'd etat in Equatorial Guinea |
Simon Cellan Jones |
Jo Wright for BBC
Film [The Out of Africa Picture Company] |
| KRAKATOA |
Historical Drama
inspired by the
cataclysmic eruption of the volcano on the island of
Krakatoa.
Filmed around Durban in Kwazulu Natal province and in Madagascar. |
Sam Miller |
Alan Eyres - for
BBC Science [Richard Green - Struck By Lightning Films - Durban] |
| UNCLE MAX |
British comedy
series. English
comedian David Schneider leads a local cast in a series of absurd comic
romps. |
Julkian Kemp [uk]. | Andy Rowley [uk]. Littlebird Company Ltd. [uk/RSA] |
| MAMA JACK |
Leon Schuster's
latest hit
comedy, released during November and doing very well - as usual! |
Gray Hofmeyr |
Anant Singh / Video
Vision |
| FAITH'S CORNER |
Darrel James Roodt's ("Yesterday")
latest "little gem"
, following the life of a woman who supports her sons by begging at
traffic lights. An adventurous little film made in the style of silent
movies and using Caption Cards instead of dialogue. |
Darrel James Roodt | Helena Spring /
Anant Singh for
Video Vision |
| MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III | Initial Casting in
Ghana and
South
Africa, but Cruise's other commitments led to the Production being
rescheduled and moved to Europe |
JJ Abrams | Cruise-Wagner
Productions [us] Paramount Pictures [us] |
| TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH | Based on William Golding's novels, this three-part Mini-series portrays life aboard a ship on a journey to Australia in 1812. | David Attwood | Tightrope
Productions [uk] BBC [uk] [Out Of Africa Pictures RSA] |
| LORD OF WAR | Nicholas Cage stars as an arms dealer being chased by an Interpol agent in this damning look at international complicity in the arms trade which inflicts war on small nations for personal gain. | Andrew Niccol | Ascendant
Pictures [us] Entertainment Manufacturing Company [us] Saturn Films [us] VIP 3 Medienfonds [de] [Reeleyes RSA] |
| THE INTERPRETER | Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where an interpreter overhears an assassination plot | Sidney Pollac | Interpreter
Productions LLC [us] Working Title Films [gb] Misher Films [us] Warner Bros. [Moonlighting RSA] |
| WHISKEY ECHO | Four part series set in a foreign aid clinic in Southern Sudan. | Harry Hook | Littlebird Company
Ltd. [uk] Barna Alper Productions [can] |
| THE FALL | An injured stuntman deals with his anger at the prospect of paraplegia by telling a story of dark fantasy to Alexandria, a little girl in the same hospital. He weaves the girl into the story, which reflects his downward spiral toward suicide, until Alexandria demands a say in the story because she is in it. | Tarsem Singh | Tarsem Singh [Made In Africa RSA] |
| WAH - WAH | Richard E. Grant draws heavily on his childhood in Swaziland for this bittersweet look at Colonial society | Richard E. Grant | [Reeleyes RSA] |
| CHARLIE JADE | This science fiction TV series, set in Cape Town half-an-hour into the future, raises questions about how we manage our planet and our society | Various | Jadejons Inc. Canada [Imaginarium RSA] |
| MAN TO MAN | Joseph Feinnes and Kirstin Scott-Thomas as nineteenth century anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape | Régis Wargnier | Vertigo Productions Pty. Ltd. [au] |
| EASTERN BRIDE | A globe trotting IT hot-shot and his cynical TV journalist girlfriend's lives are changed by their encounters with persecuted Christians from the Middle-east to China | Iain Morris | Kharis
Productions
Glasgow [Du Marc] |
| RED DUST | Oscar winner Hillary Swank plays an exiled South African lawyer who returns to participate in a Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty hearing. | Tom
Hooper |
BBC [uk] Videovision [rsa] |
| DUMA aka "Untitled Carol Ballard Project" |
A farm boy undertakes a journey to
return his
pet cheetah to the wild |
Carol
Ballard |
Gaylord Films [us] John Wells Productions [us] Pandora Pictures [Filmafrika] |
| RACING STRIPES |
A Zebra dreams of winning the
Kentucky Derby,
aided and abetted by various farmyard animals |
Frederick
Du Chau |
Alcon Entertainment [us] |
| SOMETIMES IN APRIL |
South African actress PAMELA NOMVETE
stars with
IDRIS ALBA and DEBRA WINGER in this HBO Movie exploring the human
impact of
genocide in Rwanda. Shot on location in Rwanda |
Raoul
Peck |
CINEFACTO [fr] HBO Films [us] |
| FORGIVENESS |
Independent SA Feature. Arnold
Vosloo seeks
absolution from his victim's family after receiving amnesty from the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
Ian
Gabriel |
Giant Films / DV8 [rsa] |
January 2008 |
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