The Wooden Camera
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Cast & Crew
Ntshaveni Wa Luruli
Jean-pierre Cassel
Junior Singo
Dana De Agrella
Innocent Msimango
Nicholas Jara
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Synopsis
It is just after the end of apartheid, in Capetown. A young black boy and his friend are hanging out by the rail tracks, a man falls from the train, dead. From his attaché case, one of the boys picks up a video camera, the other finds a gun. Their futures are shaped by this chance encounter. Madiba hides his camera inside a wooden box and starts to film his township, his drunken father, the city through which they roam. Sipho becomes a gang leader, and although the two stay friends their ways begin to part. Madiba meets the rebellious young daughter of a rich and reactionary white doctor and they become unlikely friends. Sipho however gets into glue sniffing and is tragically killed.
Director
Ntshaveni Wa Luruli
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States March 15, 2005
Released in United States on Video/DVD March 15, 2005
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival January 21 - February 1, 2004.
Released in United States March 15, 2005
Released in United States on Video/DVD March 15, 2005
