Blood & Water es una serie creada por Daryne Joshua, Travis Taute y Nosipho Dumisa-Ngoasheng, protagonizada por Khosi Ngema y Ama Qamata.
“Blood & Water” es una de esas series para jóvenes que, bien hechas y con mil argumentos e historias distintas, han Sabido enganchar a miles. Una serie tipo thriller con dos hermanas en centro de todo y en un colegio de los de alta clase, pero la intriga nos ha llevado mucho más allá, y tras tres temporadas de secuestros, tráficos de personas y algún que otro romance, ahora nos llega esta cuarta temporada que promete esto y más.
“Blood & Water” es una serie dirigida a un público juvenil, pero que tiene muchas historias interesantes y que, sobre todo, tiene una calidad de fotografía que la hacen muy interesante. Es una producción televisiva con varias intrigas criminales, románticas y crisis familiares varias: muchas historias entremezcladas en un...
“Blood & Water” es una de esas series para jóvenes que, bien hechas y con mil argumentos e historias distintas, han Sabido enganchar a miles. Una serie tipo thriller con dos hermanas en centro de todo y en un colegio de los de alta clase, pero la intriga nos ha llevado mucho más allá, y tras tres temporadas de secuestros, tráficos de personas y algún que otro romance, ahora nos llega esta cuarta temporada que promete esto y más.
“Blood & Water” es una serie dirigida a un público juvenil, pero que tiene muchas historias interesantes y que, sobre todo, tiene una calidad de fotografía que la hacen muy interesante. Es una producción televisiva con varias intrigas criminales, románticas y crisis familiares varias: muchas historias entremezcladas en un...
- 3/1/2024
- by Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Blood & Water is a series created by Daryne Joshua, Travis Taute and Nosipho Dumisa-Ngoasheng, starring Khosi Ngema and Ama Qamata.
“Blood & Water” is one of those series for young people that has managed to captivate thousands with its well-crafted plot and multitude of different storylines. It is a thriller series that revolves around two sisters at the center of it all, set in a high-class school. However, the intrigue has taken us far beyond that, and now, after three seasons of kidnappings, human trafficking, and some romantic entanglements, we are now presented with the highly anticipated fourth season.
“Blood & Water” is a show aimed at a younger audience, but it offers many interesting stories and, most importantly, boasts high-quality cinematography that makes it very appealing. It is a TV production with several criminal intrigues, romantic subplots, and various family crises all intertwined in a high-class school where anything can happen.
“Blood & Water” is one of those series for young people that has managed to captivate thousands with its well-crafted plot and multitude of different storylines. It is a thriller series that revolves around two sisters at the center of it all, set in a high-class school. However, the intrigue has taken us far beyond that, and now, after three seasons of kidnappings, human trafficking, and some romantic entanglements, we are now presented with the highly anticipated fourth season.
“Blood & Water” is a show aimed at a younger audience, but it offers many interesting stories and, most importantly, boasts high-quality cinematography that makes it very appealing. It is a TV production with several criminal intrigues, romantic subplots, and various family crises all intertwined in a high-class school where anything can happen.
- 3/1/2024
- by Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Unseen is a South African series created by Travis Taute and Daryne Joshua starring Gail Mabalane and Brendon Daniels.
About the Series
Unseen is an interesting South African series that behaves like a classic thriller, but with a realistic tone: it’s a tale full of mysteries where everything revolves around a protagonist who, on going to pick up her husband from prison, it turns out that he is simply not there.
There begins a plot that will lead her through criminal organizations and into the underworld, the descent into hell of a woman full of goodness, a cleaner, who is forced to become a murderess due to circumstance.
Entertaining, well paced, with the impediment of the production. This is not Revenge (the one with Emily VanCamp) nor are we in the Hamptons. Here we travel to a world that, with no pretences, spreads out its nets in the thick of night,...
About the Series
Unseen is an interesting South African series that behaves like a classic thriller, but with a realistic tone: it’s a tale full of mysteries where everything revolves around a protagonist who, on going to pick up her husband from prison, it turns out that he is simply not there.
There begins a plot that will lead her through criminal organizations and into the underworld, the descent into hell of a woman full of goodness, a cleaner, who is forced to become a murderess due to circumstance.
Entertaining, well paced, with the impediment of the production. This is not Revenge (the one with Emily VanCamp) nor are we in the Hamptons. Here we travel to a world that, with no pretences, spreads out its nets in the thick of night,...
- 3/29/2023
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid - TV
Blood & Water is a South African teen series starring Ama Kamata, Khosi Ngema, Gail Mabalane, Thabang Molaba and Dillon Windvogel. It is written and directed by Nosipho Dumisa, Daryne Joshua and Travis Taute.
Premise
After crossing paths at a party, a Cape Town teen sets out to prove whether a private-school swimming star is her sister who was abducted at birth.
Episode List Fiksation Blood & Water (2020 – )
As another year passes since her sister’s disappearance, Puleng shoulders her parent’s complex grief and escapes for a taste of joy… with a twist.
The Interview
Puleng combines secrecy and strategy as she continues her quest for answers, and a special project leads to a closer bond with Fiks and her classmates.
Propaganda
Fiks faces backlash while campaigning for Head Girl. Meanwhile, Puleng considers a pivotal decision: Share her mission with wade or abandon the search?
Blood & Water (2020 – ) Payback...
Premise
After crossing paths at a party, a Cape Town teen sets out to prove whether a private-school swimming star is her sister who was abducted at birth.
Episode List Fiksation Blood & Water (2020 – )
As another year passes since her sister’s disappearance, Puleng shoulders her parent’s complex grief and escapes for a taste of joy… with a twist.
The Interview
Puleng combines secrecy and strategy as she continues her quest for answers, and a special project leads to a closer bond with Fiks and her classmates.
Propaganda
Fiks faces backlash while campaigning for Head Girl. Meanwhile, Puleng considers a pivotal decision: Share her mission with wade or abandon the search?
Blood & Water (2020 – ) Payback...
- 11/25/2022
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid - TV
Producer Travis Taute always knew that when he'd make his directorial debut, it would be an action movie. Taute's thriller, "Indemnity," takes a grounded approach. With the power of limitations, Taute, his team, and his star, Jarrid Geduld, make their action pack a little more punch with practically, plausibility, and a general lack of CGI. As Taute explained, it wasn't always easy, but the challenge is exciting.
Prior to making his conspiracy thriller dealing with Ptsd, Taute has been producing films and shows for Gambit Films. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, the production company is behind "Blood & Water" and "Number 37." Recently,...
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Prior to making his conspiracy thriller dealing with Ptsd, Taute has been producing films and shows for Gambit Films. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, the production company is behind "Blood & Water" and "Number 37." Recently,...
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- 3/7/2022
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
Indemnity, Italian Studies, Ultrasound, Mars One attract buyers.
Magnolia Pictures International has announced multiple territory sales on its EFM slate led by South African thriller Indemnity, drama Italian Studies, sci-fi Ultrasound and Brazilian Sundance premiere Mars One.
Travis Taute’s Indemnity is described as a Bourne-esque story about a former firefighter in Cape Town accused of murdering his wife. Sales have closed for France (Swift), Germany (Meteor), Latin America (A2/ Great Movies), Cis (New People Company), South Korea (Challan), Taiwan (Best Digital) and Poland (Mayfly). Magnolia’s genre label Magnet released the thriller in the US on February 11 and Mongrel...
Magnolia Pictures International has announced multiple territory sales on its EFM slate led by South African thriller Indemnity, drama Italian Studies, sci-fi Ultrasound and Brazilian Sundance premiere Mars One.
Travis Taute’s Indemnity is described as a Bourne-esque story about a former firefighter in Cape Town accused of murdering his wife. Sales have closed for France (Swift), Germany (Meteor), Latin America (A2/ Great Movies), Cis (New People Company), South Korea (Challan), Taiwan (Best Digital) and Poland (Mayfly). Magnolia’s genre label Magnet released the thriller in the US on February 11 and Mongrel...
- 2/16/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Peter Nadermann’s Nadcon Film and South African genre specialists Gambit Films (“Indemnity”) are teaming up to adapt a trilogy of best-selling crime thrillers, Variety can reveal.
The “Revenge Trilogy” is based on the Cape Town-set novels from South African author Mike Nicol. The books will be adapted for screen by Gambit’s Daryne Joshua and will be produced by Gambit Films and Nadcon Film in cooperation with Zdf Enterprises, which co-owns Nadcon.
The story begins with ex-gun-runners Mace Bishop and Pylon Buso, who made an illicit fortune while part of the struggle against Apartheid but are now at the helm of a private security company, trying to settle into a comfortable life in Cape Town. With their ill-gotten riches stuck in the Cayman Islands, however, the partners find their dreams of a worry-free future in jeopardy.
Instead, they’re plunged into Cape Town’s violent underworld, where a powerful...
The “Revenge Trilogy” is based on the Cape Town-set novels from South African author Mike Nicol. The books will be adapted for screen by Gambit’s Daryne Joshua and will be produced by Gambit Films and Nadcon Film in cooperation with Zdf Enterprises, which co-owns Nadcon.
The story begins with ex-gun-runners Mace Bishop and Pylon Buso, who made an illicit fortune while part of the struggle against Apartheid but are now at the helm of a private security company, trying to settle into a comfortable life in Cape Town. With their ill-gotten riches stuck in the Cayman Islands, however, the partners find their dreams of a worry-free future in jeopardy.
Instead, they’re plunged into Cape Town’s violent underworld, where a powerful...
- 2/14/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
As a perennially popular international filming location — its varied landscapes standing in for everywhere from the Sahara to the French Riviera — South Africa has provided the anonymous backdrop for many a slick big-budget action thriller over the years. Rarer are films from the country’s own industry that aspire to equivalent commercial thrills, which lends Cape Town-based writer-director Travis Taute’s debut feature “Indemnity” a certain bracing novelty that counters its more generic qualities. Joining a Ptsd-afflicted firefighter on the run after being framed for the murder of his wife, Taute’s diverting film punches well above its modestly budgeted weight in terms of propulsive, literally incendiary action scenes — but is on less sure footing with a narrative that lurches from lean fugitive drama to overworked conspiracy nightmare.
A far stricter edit could have solved a number of problems in this unevenly paced and, at 124 minutes, significantly overlong film, which...
A far stricter edit could have solved a number of problems in this unevenly paced and, at 124 minutes, significantly overlong film, which...
- 2/4/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Find Her Exclusive Poster Reveal & New Stills: "Psychological Thriller Find Her has released it's final poster (attached) and revised synopsis (see below) ahead of the film's 2022 release.
The noir stars Nick McCallum (Burning Kentucky), Richard Gunn (Clemency), Stelio Savante, (Running For Grace), Rebecca Lines (The Falcon And The Winter Soldier), Anais Lilit (The Walking Dead: Red Machete), Randal Gonzalez (Greenland), John James (Axcellerator), Mary Drew Ahrens, John Daniel Gates and G. Andrew Ahrens who also serves as producer.
Filmed in Louisiana and Florida, Find Her was directed by Nick McCallum from his own script with Emmy award winning director of photography, Evan Zissimopulos providing the cinematography.
In the film, a mysterious ex-cop named Isaiah Slade arrives in a small town searching for answers to a murdered ranch owner and his still missing daughter. It slowly becomes clear that not only are there multiple suspects, but that Slade himself has his...
The noir stars Nick McCallum (Burning Kentucky), Richard Gunn (Clemency), Stelio Savante, (Running For Grace), Rebecca Lines (The Falcon And The Winter Soldier), Anais Lilit (The Walking Dead: Red Machete), Randal Gonzalez (Greenland), John James (Axcellerator), Mary Drew Ahrens, John Daniel Gates and G. Andrew Ahrens who also serves as producer.
Filmed in Louisiana and Florida, Find Her was directed by Nick McCallum from his own script with Emmy award winning director of photography, Evan Zissimopulos providing the cinematography.
In the film, a mysterious ex-cop named Isaiah Slade arrives in a small town searching for answers to a murdered ranch owner and his still missing daughter. It slowly becomes clear that not only are there multiple suspects, but that Slade himself has his...
- 1/21/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired worldwide rights (excluding Africa and Japan) to “Indemnity,” an action-thriller written and directed by South African filmmaker Travis Taute that had its world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival. Magnet is targeting an early 2022 release.
“Indemnity” follows Theo Abrams, an ex-Cape Town fireman whose world is rocked when he wakes up next to his wife’s dead body with no recollection of what transpired and all evidence pointing to him as the killer.
“’Indemnity’ is visceral, high-octane cinema done with an amazing level of accomplishment and imagination,” said Magnolia Pictures president Eamonn Bowles. “Travis Taute and his South African crew have delivered a real winner.”
“’Indemnity’ is at its very core a simple and poetic journey of one man’s attempt at redemption in the wake of a devastating trauma,” said Taute. “It was conceived as a vehicle to...
“Indemnity” follows Theo Abrams, an ex-Cape Town fireman whose world is rocked when he wakes up next to his wife’s dead body with no recollection of what transpired and all evidence pointing to him as the killer.
“’Indemnity’ is visceral, high-octane cinema done with an amazing level of accomplishment and imagination,” said Magnolia Pictures president Eamonn Bowles. “Travis Taute and his South African crew have delivered a real winner.”
“’Indemnity’ is at its very core a simple and poetic journey of one man’s attempt at redemption in the wake of a devastating trauma,” said Taute. “It was conceived as a vehicle to...
- 11/3/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Indemnity Review — Indemnity (2021) Film Review from the 25th Annual Fantasia International Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Travis Taute, starring Jarrid Geduld, Gail Mabalane, Andre Jacobs, Nicole Fortuin, Louw Venter, Abduragman Adams, Hlomla Dandala, Susan Danford, Qaeed Patel, Toni Jean Erasmus, and Grant Powell. There’s nothing wrong [...]
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- 8/12/2021
- Film-Book
Indemnity Review — Indemnity (2021) Film Review from the 25th Annual Fantasia International Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Travis Taute, starring Jarrid Geduld, Gail Mabalane, Andre Jacobs, Nicole Fortuin, Louw Venter, Abduragman Adams, Hlomla Dandala, Susan Danford, Qaeed Patel, Toni Jean Erasmus, and Grant Powell. There’s nothing wrong [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: Indemnity: A Familiar Action-Thriller That Allows For Fun and Frustration [Fantasia 2021]...
- 8/12/2021
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
Theo Abrams (Jarrid Geduld) jumps into action with CPR upon waking to find his wife’s (Nicole Fortuin’s Angela) dead body by his side. He then immediately clams up when a knock at the front door is accompanied by the declaration “Police!” He doesn’t remember hearing anyone enter their room that night nor recalls a violent struggle. Add the fact that he just lost his job due to an inability to overcome the Ptsd he’s been battling since blaming himself for the deaths of two firefighters under his command and he’s forced to wonder if he’s responsible for Angela too. Theo’s temper and anxiety have been in overdrive and his wife felt the brunt of both. If he can’t trust his own innocence, who can?
This is the question we ask ourselves despite having already processed the fifteen or so minutes of exposition...
This is the question we ask ourselves despite having already processed the fifteen or so minutes of exposition...
- 8/12/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
XYZ Films has acquired North American sales rights to “Indemnity,” an action thriller from South African director Travis Taute that’s set to world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival.
Written and directed by Taute, “Indemnity” tells the story of an ex-firefighter in Cape Town who’s forced to fight for his life after being accused of murdering his wife. Starring Jarrid Geduld, Nicole Fortuin and Andre Jacobs, pic is produced by Benjamin Overmeyer and Bradley Joshua for Gambit Films, the South African production outfit behind the Netflix series “Blood and Water” and the Fantasia prize winner “Number 37.”
“‘Indemnity’ is, at its very core, a simple and poetic journey of one man’s attempt at redemption in the wake of a devastating trauma,” said Taute. “It was conceived as a vehicle to shine a spotlight on the importance of mental health and deliver sobering insight into the destructive nature of toxic masculinity.
Written and directed by Taute, “Indemnity” tells the story of an ex-firefighter in Cape Town who’s forced to fight for his life after being accused of murdering his wife. Starring Jarrid Geduld, Nicole Fortuin and Andre Jacobs, pic is produced by Benjamin Overmeyer and Bradley Joshua for Gambit Films, the South African production outfit behind the Netflix series “Blood and Water” and the Fantasia prize winner “Number 37.”
“‘Indemnity’ is, at its very core, a simple and poetic journey of one man’s attempt at redemption in the wake of a devastating trauma,” said Taute. “It was conceived as a vehicle to shine a spotlight on the importance of mental health and deliver sobering insight into the destructive nature of toxic masculinity.
- 8/2/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Check out the action chops in this trailer for Travis Taute's action thriller Indemnity! With just over a week away from the Fantasia Film Festival we get our first taste of one of the films that will get a coveted in-person screening. This isn't Taute's first rodeo at Fantasia. He was the co-writer of the very, very good thriller, Number 37. He is also the writer and director of the well received Netflix drama, Blood & Water. Check out the trailer below and make note, it's mentioned in the announcement below that Taute's lead actor, Jarrid Geduld went method and did stunt training for three months so he could do all his own stunts in the film. What's good for Tom... ...
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- 7/28/2021
- Screen Anarchy
"Someone's trying to frame me." An early promo trailer has debuted for a South African action thriller film titled Indemnity, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Travis Taute. This is premiering at the upcoming 2021 Fantasia Film Festival, and this trailer offers us a first look. Jarrid Geduld stars as an ex-firefighter in Cape Town is forced to fight for his life after being accused of murdering his wife. Soon, connections are revealed between his past, the origin of his Ptsd, the mysterious death of his wife, and a government conspiracy with terrifying implications. The film has one hell of an opening pitch: "Reaching a whole new scale of production for South African action films, Indemnity's lead, Jarrid Geduld, spent three months training with stunt masters Vernon Willemse and Grant Powell and succeeded at all of his own stunts, including a record-breaking hanging suspension stunt performed from the 21st floor.
- 7/28/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival has unveiled much of its feature lineup including early highlights from several sidebars for this year’s online 25th edition, with the full program to be announced in July.
Fantasia’s preliminary lineup is highlighted by a glut of world and premieres including Edoardo Vitaletti’s “The Last Thing Mary Saw”; fest regular Richard Bates Jr.’s “King Knight”; Mikhael Bassilli and Luc Walpoth’s “Baby Money”; Canadian actor-turned-director Mark O’Brien’s debut “The Righteous”; “Hellbender” from John Adams, Toby Poser, and Zelda Adams; and the highly anticipated directorial debut of former Fantasia winning writer Travis Taute’s (“Number 37”) “Indemnity.”
Available to audiences across Canada, Fantasia will run Aug. 5-25 and present screenings, panels and workshops on its digital platform, hosted for the second year running by Festival Scope and Shift72. Event organizers are also closely monitoring the health and safety guidelines laid out by public officials in Montreal,...
Fantasia’s preliminary lineup is highlighted by a glut of world and premieres including Edoardo Vitaletti’s “The Last Thing Mary Saw”; fest regular Richard Bates Jr.’s “King Knight”; Mikhael Bassilli and Luc Walpoth’s “Baby Money”; Canadian actor-turned-director Mark O’Brien’s debut “The Righteous”; “Hellbender” from John Adams, Toby Poser, and Zelda Adams; and the highly anticipated directorial debut of former Fantasia winning writer Travis Taute’s (“Number 37”) “Indemnity.”
Available to audiences across Canada, Fantasia will run Aug. 5-25 and present screenings, panels and workshops on its digital platform, hosted for the second year running by Festival Scope and Shift72. Event organizers are also closely monitoring the health and safety guidelines laid out by public officials in Montreal,...
- 5/25/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the first wave of programming for its upcoming 25th edition, set again to take place as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada. The festival will run from August 5 – 25, 2021 and will include scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops, with films once again hosted on the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72. As the summer approaches, Fantasia organizers will be following advice from local health authorities in Montreal with respect to the possibility of adding a limited range of physical events as well. In celebration of the key role that Japan’s culture has played across Fantasia’s history, the festival’s 25th edition will be featuring an enhanced focus on Japanese cinema.
Following the earlier news of the festival’s opening film, the world premiere of Julien Knafo’s Quebec-set zomcom Brain Freeze starring Roy Dupuis and Iani Bédard,...
Following the earlier news of the festival’s opening film, the world premiere of Julien Knafo’s Quebec-set zomcom Brain Freeze starring Roy Dupuis and Iani Bédard,...
- 5/22/2021
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
One of my favorite festivals is back with a virtual event taking place this August! The Fantasia International Film Festival has announced its first wave of programming, which includes a diverse slate of features and a special focus on Japanese cinema:
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 // Montreal, Quebec -- The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the first wave of programming for its upcoming 25th edition, set again to take place as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada. The festival will run from August 5 - 25, 2021 and will include scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops, with films once again hosted on the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72. As the summer approaches, Fantasia organizers will be following advice from local health authorities in Montreal with respect to the possibility of adding a limited range of physical events as well. In celebration of the key role that Japan...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 // Montreal, Quebec -- The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the first wave of programming for its upcoming 25th edition, set again to take place as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada. The festival will run from August 5 - 25, 2021 and will include scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops, with films once again hosted on the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72. As the summer approaches, Fantasia organizers will be following advice from local health authorities in Montreal with respect to the possibility of adding a limited range of physical events as well. In celebration of the key role that Japan...
- 5/20/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Canadian genre festival Fantasia has unveiled the first crop of titles that will screen at its 25th edition, which is set to take place virtually August 5-25.
As per last year, the event will run on a platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72 and will feature screenings, panels and workshops, available to audiences in Canada. Organizers continue to discuss with local authorities about the possibility of adding a limited range of physical events, they said.
This year’s edition will have an enhanced focus on Japanese cinema. Below, the first wave of confirmed titles is listed, with the full program announcement to follow in late July. As previously announced, Fantasia will open with Quebec-set zom-com Brain Freeze.
Fantasia 2021 titles:
The 12 Day Tale Of The Monster That Died In 8
Dir. Shunji Iwai
Japan
North American Premiere
Agnes
Dir. Mickey Reece
USA
International Premiere
All The Moons
Dir. Igor Legarreta
Spain...
As per last year, the event will run on a platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72 and will feature screenings, panels and workshops, available to audiences in Canada. Organizers continue to discuss with local authorities about the possibility of adding a limited range of physical events, they said.
This year’s edition will have an enhanced focus on Japanese cinema. Below, the first wave of confirmed titles is listed, with the full program announcement to follow in late July. As previously announced, Fantasia will open with Quebec-set zom-com Brain Freeze.
Fantasia 2021 titles:
The 12 Day Tale Of The Monster That Died In 8
Dir. Shunji Iwai
Japan
North American Premiere
Agnes
Dir. Mickey Reece
USA
International Premiere
All The Moons
Dir. Igor Legarreta
Spain...
- 5/19/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Organisers consulting with local Montreal authorities on possibility of limited range of physical events.
Top brass at Fantasia International Film Festival have announced the first wave of films including a focus on Japan for the virtual edition of the 25th anniversary festival that runs August 5-25.
The festival will screen for Canadian audiences on a platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72. Organisers are taking advice from local health authorities in Montreal on the possibility of adding a limited range of physical events.
Japanese selections include Tsutomu Hanabusa’s manga adaptation Kakegurui 2: Ultimate Russian Roulette about a deadly school...
Top brass at Fantasia International Film Festival have announced the first wave of films including a focus on Japan for the virtual edition of the 25th anniversary festival that runs August 5-25.
The festival will screen for Canadian audiences on a platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72. Organisers are taking advice from local health authorities in Montreal on the possibility of adding a limited range of physical events.
Japanese selections include Tsutomu Hanabusa’s manga adaptation Kakegurui 2: Ultimate Russian Roulette about a deadly school...
- 5/19/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Netflix is continuing its push into African originals with its latest order, the South African teen series “Blood & Water.”
The series, which is directed by Nosipho Dumisa, the helmer behind the buzzy SXSW title “Number 37,” follows a local teen who discovers her family’s secret past while navigating the complicated world of a South African high school.
The news comes two months after Netflix announced its first African original, “Queen Sono,” starring veteran South African thesp Pearl Thusi (“Quantico”) as a secret agent fighting crime while dealing with her messy personal life. Last week the streamer also announced its acquisition of South African drama “Shadow,” about an ex-cop with superpowers, which will be released globally as a Netflix Original March 8.
“Blood & Water” features an up-and-coming local cast and will be produced by the Gambit Films team behind “Number 37.” Daryne Joshua and Travis Taute will be writing and co-directing with Dumisa,...
The series, which is directed by Nosipho Dumisa, the helmer behind the buzzy SXSW title “Number 37,” follows a local teen who discovers her family’s secret past while navigating the complicated world of a South African high school.
The news comes two months after Netflix announced its first African original, “Queen Sono,” starring veteran South African thesp Pearl Thusi (“Quantico”) as a secret agent fighting crime while dealing with her messy personal life. Last week the streamer also announced its acquisition of South African drama “Shadow,” about an ex-cop with superpowers, which will be released globally as a Netflix Original March 8.
“Blood & Water” features an up-and-coming local cast and will be produced by the Gambit Films team behind “Number 37.” Daryne Joshua and Travis Taute will be writing and co-directing with Dumisa,...
- 2/25/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix is continuing its aggressive move into African originals with its latest commission: teen series Blood & Water.
The series, which will be directed by Nommer 37 director Nosipho Dumisa, follows a local teen uncovering her family’s secret past and navigating the complicated world of a South African high school.
This comes two months after the Svod service unveiled Queen Sono, starring Quantico’s Pearl Thusi, as its first African original.
Blood & Water will be produced by Dumisa’s Nommer 37 team at Gambit Films with Daryne Joshua and Travis Taute writing and co-directing with Nosipho, Bradley Joshua and Benjamin Overmeyer as producers and Simon Beesley as lead editor.
The series is set to start production later this year and is expected to launch globally in 190 countries in 2020.
“Gambit Films and I are so excited to be working with Netflix on this explosive young adult drama, with not only a cool look...
The series, which will be directed by Nommer 37 director Nosipho Dumisa, follows a local teen uncovering her family’s secret past and navigating the complicated world of a South African high school.
This comes two months after the Svod service unveiled Queen Sono, starring Quantico’s Pearl Thusi, as its first African original.
Blood & Water will be produced by Dumisa’s Nommer 37 team at Gambit Films with Daryne Joshua and Travis Taute writing and co-directing with Nosipho, Bradley Joshua and Benjamin Overmeyer as producers and Simon Beesley as lead editor.
The series is set to start production later this year and is expected to launch globally in 190 countries in 2020.
“Gambit Films and I are so excited to be working with Netflix on this explosive young adult drama, with not only a cool look...
- 2/25/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
It was a calculated risk lock-picker Randal Hendricks (Irshaad Ally) was willing to make. Borrow twenty-five thousand dollars from a loan shark he’s known since childhood (Danny Ross’ Emmie) and flip it to some gangsters willing to give him a deal on drugs. Sell the drugs at a mark-up and he should have enough to get himself and his girlfriend Pam (Monique Rockman) out of their rough Cape Town slum. Like Emmie warned, however, gangsters aren’t to be trusted. So when we meet Randal again months later to discover him a paraplegic being carried to his apartment by a neighbor (Ephram Gordon’s Warren), it’s easy to assume things went south. Now broke, unable to walk, and indebted to a psychopath, the clock on his life begins counting down.
Writer/director Nosipho Dumisa’s Number 37 picks up much like Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window began: at a window,...
Writer/director Nosipho Dumisa’s Number 37 picks up much like Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window began: at a window,...
- 7/29/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
It was a couple years back that we first came across the fantastic South African short film Nommer 37 (Number 37). A deliberate nod to Hitchcock's Rear Window the film tells the story of a young man recently released from prison and now wheelchair-bound from a robbery gone wrong. Unable to navigate the world outside his home he instead orchestrates a robbery within his own building complex, pulling the strings of those around him to his own advantage. Co-directed by Travis Taute and Nosipho Dumisa from a script by Daryne Joshua the short went on to great success and now Dumisa has stepped into the director's chair for a feature expansion. In production right now Screen Anarchy is proud to present the first images from...
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- 4/11/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Here's a tasty little something from South Africa with the trailer for award winning short film Nommer 37. Co-directed by Nosipho Dumisa and Travis Taute the film's premise is a deliberate nod to Hitchcock's Rear Window with the story transplanted to the gritty underbelly of the Cape Town and the results look absolutely fantastic.Nommer 37 tells the story of Randal (Irshaad Ally), a career criminal recently crippled by an injury sustained during a shady deal gone horribly wrong. Wheelchair-bound and cooped up in his apartment in a rough Cape Town neighbourhood, with no-one to support him except his devoted girlfriend Pam (Shamilla Miller), Randal is heavily indebted to a ruthless loan shark. With no way of paying the money back, he despairs for himself and...
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- 5/5/2015
- Screen Anarchy
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