Gangster Project

In Cape Town, South Africa, one of the world's most violent and unequal societies, a young white film student sets out with his cameraman, leaving the comfort of his protected neighbourhood. He wants to make a Gangster Film, with real gangsters. After a lengthy search for a suitably 'cinematic' character, he finds the perfect gang and settles into their everyday rhythm. The reality soon catches up and the claustrophobic gangster life doesn’t exactly fit to the expectations. 20 year after the first democratic election, South Africa remains a deeply divided society, one in which dialogue and understanding seem impossible, out of reach. It is a film between fiction and reality, where real truths are revealed and fiction stops being fiction, and when it stops mattering.

Cast

Thurston Moses

Tammy Miosha Rass

Teboho Edkins

Ralf 'Jackals' Peterson

Yousi

Ouma

Nasheed

Nathen ‘Snap’ Louw & Gang

Mr. Jackson

Kevin 'Kuifie’ and Friends & the Kids at Fire

Credits

Buch:	Teboho Edkins, François-Xavier Drouet
Kamera:	Tom Akinleminu
Produktion:	Anna Guddat, François-Xavier Drouet
Schnitt:	Rune Schweitzer
Ton:	Thabo Singine, Laura Schnurre

DirectorRegie:	Teboho Edkins,
GenreGattung:	documentary
Production CountryProduktionsland:	Deutschland, Südafrika
Production CompanyProduktionsfirma:	Steps, Don Edkins and Teboho Edkins, Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin,
ProductionProduktion:	2011
Recording FormatDrehformat:	HD
Screening FormatVorführformat:	4:3
Frame RateBildgeschwindigkeit:	25 fps
Aspect RatioSeitenverhältnis:	4:3
Sound FormatTonformat:
LanguageSprache:	Afrikaans & Englisch mit deutschen Untertiteln
FassungFassung:	OV
Festivals:	Festival de cinéma de Douarnenez (19.-27.08.2011) Doc en courts Lyon (03.12.2011) Brive European Medium Length Films Meetings (10.-15.04.12) 10. Tri Continental Film Festival (07.-23.09.12)
Running TimeLaufzeit:	55