Project Watch: South African All-Female Western-Adventure 'Flatland'

From Shadow and Act Mon Dec 1 2014, 23:16:57

South African all-female western-adventure film, "Flatland," directed by Jenna Bass, set in the country's semi-desert region called the Karoo, has been selected to receive production funding from the World Cinema Fund (WCF). It will join the ranks of Oliver Hermanus' "Shirley Adams" (South Africa) and Donald Mugisha's "The Boda Boda Thieves" (Uganda/South Africa) as the only South African films to have received support in the fund's history. "Flatland" is a contemporary-set, all-female western-adventure that tells the story of a lonely policewoman longing to reunite with her fugitive boyfriend; while simultaneously tasked with a murder...

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