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
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South African director Daryne Joshua - writer of stellar short film Nommer 37, which we covered in these pages a while back - makes his feature debut with the upcoming period set crime drama Call Me Thief (Noem My Skollie). Based on the actual experiences of screenwriter John W Fredericks, the film tells the story of a group of friends growing up in the notorious Cape Flats who form a pact with one another as a means of self preservation and quickly slide into a life of petty gangsterism. When a pair of the group end up in prison one discovers a talent for telling stories and carves out a protected space for himself as the 'prison cinema' and tries to carve out a life...
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- 7/19/2016
- 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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