Exclusive: Nfdc’s Co-Production Market project On the Way to Paradise has received funding from three separate government bodies in South Africa: the Department of Trade and Industry, the National Film and Video Foundation and KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission.
Director Sara Blecher’s Real Eyes Films has also secured a pre-sale deal with South African TV network M-Net.
On The Way To Paradise has now raised half of its $1.5m funding, and producer Imraan Jeeva is at Film Bazaar looking for the final financing.
The project is on track to start shooting in early 2016 in Johannesburg’s vibrant immigrant-filled suburb Mayfair.
Blecher’s first English-language film is loosely inspired by The Godfather, as the story revolves around a young Muslim man of uncompromised integrity who is drawn unwillingly into his father’s money laundering scheme.
Blecher’s Ayanda, a social drama about a young woman who inherits a garage from her Nigerian father, opened this year...
Director Sara Blecher’s Real Eyes Films has also secured a pre-sale deal with South African TV network M-Net.
On The Way To Paradise has now raised half of its $1.5m funding, and producer Imraan Jeeva is at Film Bazaar looking for the final financing.
The project is on track to start shooting in early 2016 in Johannesburg’s vibrant immigrant-filled suburb Mayfair.
Blecher’s first English-language film is loosely inspired by The Godfather, as the story revolves around a young Muslim man of uncompromised integrity who is drawn unwillingly into his father’s money laundering scheme.
Blecher’s Ayanda, a social drama about a young woman who inherits a garage from her Nigerian father, opened this year...
- 11/21/2015
- ScreenDaily
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