The South African short film Promise will screen at the Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival on Saturday.
Promise is written and produced by local filmmaker Greta Henley and is directed by another Captonian‚ Craig Hunter Parker.
The festival is produced by the Alliance of Women Filmmakers‚ a nonprofit organisation. The festival is a platform for women filmmakers worldwide who bring their diverse stories and experiences. The festival reflects AWF’s aim to inform audiences of the social‚ political and health issues that affect women globally.
Promise is a relationship drama which follows Tessa (Joelle Coutinho) as she faces the destruction of her marriage to Jonathan (Francis Chouler).
Most of the team and cast who created Promise is South African‚ the majority from Cape Town — as are cinematographer Christian Denslow and Thomas Jacob Czech who is responsible for the original score.
The other actors are Nolly Noluthando Meje (of Isidingo fame)‚ Josie Feldman‚ Amy Louise Wilson‚ Marc Pleass and Joseph Klink.
Six months before shooting‚ Henley met a man selling The Big Issue outside a restaurant in Hout Bay‚ who said his name was Joseph Klink.
The script called for a Big Issue vendor‚ who would be in two critical scenes with Coutinho. Henley recalled her encounter with Klink and found him.
Promise was filmed in Cape Town in late 2014 and premiered at the Labia Theatre in the city.
The LA festival runs from March 24 to 27.
SA film 'Promise' screens at women’s international film festival
Promise is written and produced by local filmmaker Greta Henley and is directed by another Captonian‚ Craig Hunter Parker.
The festival is produced by the Alliance of Women Filmmakers‚ a nonprofit organisation. The festival is a platform for women filmmakers worldwide who bring their diverse stories and experiences. The festival reflects AWF’s aim to inform audiences of the social‚ political and health issues that affect women globally.
Promise is a relationship drama which follows Tessa (Joelle Coutinho) as she faces the destruction of her marriage to Jonathan (Francis Chouler).
Most of the team and cast who created Promise is South African‚ the majority from Cape Town — as are cinematographer Christian Denslow and Thomas Jacob Czech who is responsible for the original score.
The other actors are Nolly Noluthando Meje (of Isidingo fame)‚ Josie Feldman‚ Amy Louise Wilson‚ Marc Pleass and Joseph Klink.
Six months before shooting‚ Henley met a man selling The Big Issue outside a restaurant in Hout Bay‚ who said his name was Joseph Klink.
The script called for a Big Issue vendor‚ who would be in two critical scenes with Coutinho. Henley recalled her encounter with Klink and found him.
Promise was filmed in Cape Town in late 2014 and premiered at the Labia Theatre in the city.
The LA festival runs from March 24 to 27.
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