Caméra de bois (La)
Synopsis
A man lies dead alongside a pair of railway tracks in South Aftrica. Madiba and Sipho, two teens from the townships, find a gun and video camera next to his body. Sipho grabs the gun. Madiba the camera. Once inseperable, the objects they choose now breaks them apart. Sipho becomes the boss of a gang of streetkids and roams the city looking for trouble, while Madiba becomes a filmmaker, capturing the life of his family and his neighborhood on film. They link up with Estelle, a kid from the chic part of town who finds her family life intensely suffocating. They're black, she's white. They don't see what difference their skin color makes, whereas it remains a sensitive issue for their parents, despite the end of Apartheid.
A film about an artist's first steps, the wrong turns taken by a rogue with a heart of gold, and young people's attempts to counteract the prejudices of the generations that came before them.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (8)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Odelion Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Odelion Films
- French distribution : Eurozoom
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Olivier Delahaye
- Screenwriters : Yves Buclet, Peter Speyer
- Director of Photography : Gordon Spooner
- Music Composer : Phil Sawyer
- Editor : Kako Kelber
- Sound Recordist : Christian Martin
- Costume designer : Leigh Bishop
- Production Designer : Jean-Vincent Puzos
- French distributor : Amel Lacombe
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : France, Great Britain
- Original French-language productions : No
