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- KENNETH NKOSI WINS THE SAFTA FOR BEST ACTOR
- WHERE CAN I SEE IT?
- 23 March 2010
- WHITE WEDDING WILL BE AT THE
BERLIN MARKET THIS WEEK
- 20 March 2010
WHITE WEDDING screens in Sao Paolo Brazil at the Reserva Cultural from 28 April to 28 May 2010 as part of 2010: World Cup of Films.
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- WHITE WEDDING WILL BE AT THE
BERLIN MARKET THIS WEEK
- 15 Febuary 2010
White Wedding will be at the Berlin Market this week. Please contact Robbie Little of the Little Film Company for International sales and Festivals.
ROBBIE LITTLE
THE LITTLE FILM COMPANY
Office 818 762 6999 | Mobile 310 567 8356
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WHITE WEDDING SCREENINGS IN NYC
- 15 Febuary 2010
| As part of the New York African Film Festival, White Wedding will be screening at the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, New York Saturday, April 10th, 2010 at 9:20 p.m. and Tuesday, April 13th at 9:45 p.m. |
- WHITE WEDDING SCREENINGS IN NYC
- 23 November 2009
Screenings will take place on:
Sunday November 29, at 4.40p.m
The Anthology Film Archives at 32 2nd Ave @2nd Street
Wednesday December 2, at 8.30 p.m.
Colvin Centre Teachers College at 525 W 120th Street, 125 Zankel
Book through http://www.nyadff.org |
- WHITE WEDDING WINS MVFF AUDIENCE AWARD!
- 22 Otober 2009
 After an incredibly enthusiastic response from packed audiences at Mill Valley Film Festival, we were thrilled to hear that White Wedding was in a dead heat with An Education (Lone Scherfig's film) as winner of the Audience Award for World Cinema!
The two films were both declared winners.
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- WHITE WEDDING UP FOR OSCARTM NOMINATION
- 04 Otober 2009
The hit South African feature film, White Wedding, is South Africa’s official selection for entry into the Foreign Language Category of the 82nd Academy Awards (Oscars) in 2010.
This was announced by the South African Academy Award Selection Committee and the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) on 17 September at the NFVF’s offices in Johannesburg. If approved by the Oscars Academy Award Selection Committee, White Wedding will then represent South Africa as a nominee in its category.
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- WHITE WEDDING TO PLAY AT MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
- 04 October 2009
8 to 18th OCTOBER - ACTRESS JODI WHITTAKER TO ATTEND.
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- "PARADISE STOP" GOES INTO PRODUCTION
- 04 October 2009
Stepping Stone Picture's new movie, a light-hearted thriller, starts production in October 2009. The film stars Kenneth and Rapulana, and will be produced 100% in South Africa. It will be shot and post-produced on HD, and is expected to be released in late 2010.
For more information, contact joyls@mweb.co.za
- Movie draws public - and pirates
- 22 June 2009
South Africa’s new comedy film White Wedding has been such an unexpected hit on local screens it has already attracted the interest of DVD pirates – but the film-makers are fighting back.
Six weeks after its launch, White Wedding – best described as a road-and-buddy movie – is still on the local cinema circuit, drawing record numbers of viewers and competing strongly with Hollywood blockbusters produced with budgets hundreds of times more.
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- Bride, groom and story that united a nation
- Friday 19 June 2009 22:59PM BST
Terminator Salvation and other stapleHollywood blockbusters are facing an unlikely rival at South Africa's multiplex cinemas.
White Wedding is a romantic comedy that took 19 days to shoot on a budget of 6m rand (£450,000), yet in less than two months it has become one of South Africa's most successful films. It also appears to be succeeding where so many politicians have failed – by making people feel good about themselves.
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- PHENOMENAL OPENING WEEKEND BOX OFFICE FOR
“WHITE WEDDING.”
WHITE WEDDING, the locally produced road-movie-rom-com banked its first R1million on opening weekend.
The film grossed over R1.1 million at the Box Office this past weekend when it released on circuit in South-Africa. These results are in line with the opening weekend performance of the smash hit SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE ’s gross earnings on its opening weekend in March this year. WHITE WEDDING has garnered 48 000 attendances since its release on Wednesday 29 April, and outperformed X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE at sites like Ster-Kinekor Maponya Mall, Sterland, Savannah Mall, Southgate and The Wheel amongst others.
‘We’ve watched every kind of local audience watching our movie, and what every screening has had in common are the smiles on people’s faces when they leave the theatre. I am elated with the way SA audiences have received the film.’ said director Jann Turner in response to the unprecedented performance of the film to date.
Writer-producer-actor, Kenneth Nkosi concurs: ‘South Africans are sending us a message, they want to see themselves and laugh at themselves on the big screen.’
WHITE WEDDING sold three times more tickets than the hit gangster movie JERUSALEMA did on its opening weekend, and twice as many tickets as Academy Award Winner TSOTSI did at the time of its release. WHITE WEDDING’s opening weekend gross is comparable to the Martin Lawrence in COLLEGE ROAD TRIP. The film also sold 3% more tickets than Tyler Perry’s WHY DID I GET MARRIED sold on opening weekend.
Says Helen Kuun of Ster-Kinekor Distribution: ‘Both Kenneth and Rapulana have starred or featured in many successful local feature films in recent years (Max and Mona, Hijack Stories, Jerusalema, Tsotsi) and subsequently have built up a big-screen fanbase. WHITE WEDDING’s results illustrates that local star-power can bring people to cinemas in equal numbers to those that US star-driven films do.’
WHITE WEDDING stars Kenneth Nkosi and Rapulana Seiphemo who also co-wrote an co-produced the film with director Jann Turner. The film was released by Ster-Kinekor Distribution and is playing in cinemas nationwide.
The critics said:
“White Wedding a brilliantly hilarious South African film.” The Sowetan
“White Wedding does not patronise, pander or preach as the film finds humour and hope in our diversity “ Business Day Weekender
“Filled with first rate acting and some uncomfortable truths about how we deal with each other this road-trip movie surprises and delights “ Theresa Smith - Tonight
“I would be surprised if this year brings us a better South African movie than White Wedding” Barry Ronge
For more information contact Joy Sapieka on 073 212 5492 or e-mail joyls@ mweb.co.za or visit www.whiteweddingmovie.co.za <http://www.whiteweddingmovie.co.za/>
For publicity images and production information go to www.skpictures.co.za <http://www.skpictures.co.za/>
- Elvis's white wedding: he gives us some background
- April 03 2009 04:39PM
The formidable duo of South African actors Kenneth Nkosi and Rapulana Seiphemo have teamed up again to bring us the comedy White Wedding. Nkosi writes for us in character as the groom, ELVIS HLOPE, about the perils, pitfalls and joys of organising a wedding and dealing with future in-laws ... among other things.
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- White Wedding opens in 28 cinemas nationwide of April 29th
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March 27 2009 13:41:07
South Africans can look forward to a new breed of South African cinema with the release of White Wedding, a slick, canny romantic comedy starring Rapulana Seiphemo (Jerusalema), Kenneth Nkosi (Tsotsi) and British actress Jodie Whittaker star of Venus.
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- White Wedding: The Making of a South African Movie
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Mon, 13 Mar 2009
Online Magazine pages 159-162
(Search for White Wedding)
I met Kenneth Nkosi and
Rapulana Seiphemo ten years ago when I was hired as one of the first directors on the daily soap Isidingo. Raps and Kenny were acting on the show. We used to hang out and talk a lot about life, the universe and movies and the kind of work we'd like to do beyond soapies.
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- All eyes on FESPACO
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Wed, 11 Feb 2009
At the time of going to press Screen Africa learnt that three South African films, Michael Raeburn's Triomf, Ralph Ziman's Jerusalema and Jann Turner's White Wedding, had been selected for competition at FESPACO, the Pan African Film & TV Festival of Ouagadougou, which takes place in Burkina Faso from 28 February to 7 March.
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- “Wedding” Wraps Principal Photography
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Mon, 31 Mar 2008
The South African romantic comedy White Wedding, starring Venus star Jodie Whittaker has completed principal photography. This is the feature film debut of celebrated author and television director Jann Turner. Bestselling novelist Ken Follett (World Without End, Eye of the Needle) is the executive producer.
Described as ‘a high-spirited romantic road-movie’, White Wedding has been shot all over South Africa, from bustling Johannesburg and tropical Durban to the luscious Eastern Cape and dazzling mother city of Cape Town.
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- Cape Winelands Film Festival
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20 – 29th March 2009
South African cinephiles will have an opportunity to see a rich diversity of films from more than 35 countries. More than 130 features, documentaries and shorts form part of this year’s programme.
The festival will have premieres of various South African productions including Jann Turner’s wonderful comedy White Wedding (the Opening film of the CWFF), and Tornado and the Kalahari Horse Wisperer, a new feature by acclaimed director Regardt van den Bergh (Hansie, Faith Like Potatoes).
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“I would be surprised if this year brings us a better South African movie than White Wedding.”
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| -The Sunday Times RSA |
“After years in which race relations have been discussed only with deadly earnestness and self-flagellation, the film lightly sends up stereotypes and prejudices in ways that few South Africans have dared before.”
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| -The Guardian (UK) |
“For a country still struggling to define what it means to be African, this clash between European and African traditions is one of the central issues of life, one that effects the way one votes, worships, eats and relates to one’s fellow citizens and it makes for great comedic material . Black friends who have seen this film have universally loved it. Some white friends are amazed that a non –South African could enjoy such a film, especially with its’ subtitles in Xhosa, Zulu and Afrikaans. But others see it as a welcome chance to release the daily tension of racial politics with a bit of laughter. ”
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