Awards: Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival - Grand Prize, Zanzibar International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize

Sophiatown, South Africa, in the mid-50s: an interracial oasis of musicians, gangsters and hipsters; home to the likes of Henry Nxumalo (Taye Diggs), sportswriter for the magazine DRUM, and his friends, such as the charismatic young political activist Nelson Mandela. Nxumalo’s world revolves around the seductions of nightclub life—to the frustration of his otherwise adoring wife (beautifully portrayed by Moshidi Motshegwa). Everything changes when he volunteers for an undercover assignment as a farm laborer for a brutal white boss. His subsequent exposé of the appalling conditions he experiences projects him and the magazine – along with his editor and German photographer-sidekick, both white – into the front lines of the growing resistance to apartheid. Based on a real-life story, director Zola Maseko's impressive debut feature is a portrait of courage, interracial camaraderie and transcendence in adversity, superbly filtered through the tale of Nxumalo's transformation from hedonist to investigative journalist par excellence. ~ Mill Valley Film Festival

Principal Cast: Taye Diggs, Jason Flemyng, Gabriel Mann,
Tumisho Masha, Moshidi Motshegwa, Tanya Baleson

Producer: Dumisani Dlamini , Zachary Matz, Matt Milich
Chris Sievernich, Rudolf Wichmann
Cinematographer: Lisa Rinzler
Editors: Troy Takaki

Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Tuesday, October 10 at 7:55pm