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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] |
| February
2009 |
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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 |
| 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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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 |
| 10,000 YEARS BC | 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] |
| 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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