Cast includes Long Walk To Freedom’s Deon Lotz.
Ster-Kinekor will release local production Faan Se Trein in South Africa in January 2014.
The Afrikaans-language family film is written and directed by Koos Roets and produced by Helena Spring.
The cast features Willie Esterhuizen, Deon Lotz (Long Walk to Freedom), Marius Weyers (Blood Diamond), Sandra Kotze (Die Storie van Klara Viljee), Anel Alexander (Semi-Soet), Nicola Hanekom (Jimmy in Pink), Cobus Rossouw and Gamiet Petersen.
The story, likened to Forrest Gump, is about a simple man whose inheritance inspires greed in his tiny Karoo village. It is based on the 1975 hit play Faan se Trein.
Spring who describes the film as “a haunting, yet feel good story about greed and human values”.
The film has already won a number of prizes at the M-Net Silverscreen awards.
Ster-Kinekor will release local production Faan Se Trein in South Africa in January 2014.
The Afrikaans-language family film is written and directed by Koos Roets and produced by Helena Spring.
The cast features Willie Esterhuizen, Deon Lotz (Long Walk to Freedom), Marius Weyers (Blood Diamond), Sandra Kotze (Die Storie van Klara Viljee), Anel Alexander (Semi-Soet), Nicola Hanekom (Jimmy in Pink), Cobus Rossouw and Gamiet Petersen.
The story, likened to Forrest Gump, is about a simple man whose inheritance inspires greed in his tiny Karoo village. It is based on the 1975 hit play Faan se Trein.
Spring who describes the film as “a haunting, yet feel good story about greed and human values”.
The film has already won a number of prizes at the M-Net Silverscreen awards.
- 9/16/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
South African cinema is being culturally colonised by Hollywood, yet makes scant provision for its predominantly black population
It's no accident that the three African countries with the highest Gdp are also the three with sustainable film industries: South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria. Nigeria, with supposedly the highest film output in the world, is the unstoppable home of on-the-fly video features. Egypt – though still in a post-revolution lull – is Hollywood for the ummah. There's been relatively little interest in the upswing in South African cinema, though, perhaps because it's the least exotic of the three to westerners.
But it's precisely because it's the most culturally familiar, with the strongest Hollywood presence, that it is a bellwether for the future of cinema on the continent: American-style, or something else. South Africa is the African country with the biggest number of screens by far, and the only one where Hollywood has immediate prospects of cashing in.
It's no accident that the three African countries with the highest Gdp are also the three with sustainable film industries: South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria. Nigeria, with supposedly the highest film output in the world, is the unstoppable home of on-the-fly video features. Egypt – though still in a post-revolution lull – is Hollywood for the ummah. There's been relatively little interest in the upswing in South African cinema, though, perhaps because it's the least exotic of the three to westerners.
But it's precisely because it's the most culturally familiar, with the strongest Hollywood presence, that it is a bellwether for the future of cinema on the continent: American-style, or something else. South Africa is the African country with the biggest number of screens by far, and the only one where Hollywood has immediate prospects of cashing in.
- 6/13/2012
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
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