Exclusive: Amp International has taken world sales rights on the sci-fi film Touchdown from Bandit Country.
The film follows the story of five friends stranded across the world when meteor storms bring a new life form to Earth. As global authorities implement emergency controls and move in secret to eliminate the predator, the friends risk everything to survive as they come face to face with the monster.
The film stars Clinton Liberty (House Of The Dragon), Cressida Bonas (White House Farm), Will Attenborough (Dunkirk), Kai Luke Brummer (Moffie), Lily Frazer (Saint Maud) and Jason Flemyng (Boiling Point).
Produced by Josephine Rose of Bandit Country, Touchdown also marks her first feature as director. The film was shot remotely during lockdown in seven different countries, capturing ground and aerial footage in the UK, U.S., South Africa, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, and Australia. Rose has previously been Executive Producer on projects like Cinderella,...
The film follows the story of five friends stranded across the world when meteor storms bring a new life form to Earth. As global authorities implement emergency controls and move in secret to eliminate the predator, the friends risk everything to survive as they come face to face with the monster.
The film stars Clinton Liberty (House Of The Dragon), Cressida Bonas (White House Farm), Will Attenborough (Dunkirk), Kai Luke Brummer (Moffie), Lily Frazer (Saint Maud) and Jason Flemyng (Boiling Point).
Produced by Josephine Rose of Bandit Country, Touchdown also marks her first feature as director. The film was shot remotely during lockdown in seven different countries, capturing ground and aerial footage in the UK, U.S., South Africa, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, and Australia. Rose has previously been Executive Producer on projects like Cinderella,...
- 5/16/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Dominic Sherwood, Jacky Lai, McKinley Belcher III, Kai Luke Brummer, Eddie Ramos, Mampho Brescia, Soyama Mbashe, Tamer Burjaq, Nathan Castle, Rizelle Januk, Anton David Jeftha | Written by Michael D. Weiss | Directed by John Pogue
Talk about reviving a franchise from the grave! Twenty-six years (26!) after Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1996 action film Eraser comes a franchise reboot featuring none of the original cast and with two veterans of franchise reboots and Dtv sequels at the helm, director John Pogue and writer Michael D. Weiss. Yet whilst both filmmakers have experience in reboots and sequels they also have some other fantastic movies under their belts – Pogue wrote all Three of The Skulls movies (the second being a personal favourite) and Weiss penned some classic Dtv movies that went on to be staples of the early days of budget DVDs – Octopus and it’s sequel, Crocodile and US Seals 2… Yes, Eraser: Reborn has quite the pedigree.
Talk about reviving a franchise from the grave! Twenty-six years (26!) after Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1996 action film Eraser comes a franchise reboot featuring none of the original cast and with two veterans of franchise reboots and Dtv sequels at the helm, director John Pogue and writer Michael D. Weiss. Yet whilst both filmmakers have experience in reboots and sequels they also have some other fantastic movies under their belts – Pogue wrote all Three of The Skulls movies (the second being a personal favourite) and Weiss penned some classic Dtv movies that went on to be staples of the early days of budget DVDs – Octopus and it’s sequel, Crocodile and US Seals 2… Yes, Eraser: Reborn has quite the pedigree.
- 5/19/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Photo: ‘Moffie'/Amazon In Afrikaans, the “n-word” and the “f-word” are instead the “m-word” and the “k-word.” For the latter, see ‘Kaffir Boy’--for the former, see ‘Moffie’. Directed by Oliver Hermanus and based on André Carl van der Merwe’s 2006 autobiographical novel of the same name, ‘Moffie’ follows Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), a gay, English-speaking teenager in South Africa, 1981, at the height of Apartheid and the war in Angola. The White minority of the time, which composed only 18% of South Africa’s population, held complete political control over the Black majority--in a brief sermon partway through the film, a fiery Afrikaner priest likens the struggle of the Whites and the Blacks to that of David and Goliath. From 1957-1993, all White males older than 16 were conscripted into the South African Defence Force (Sadf) for two compulsory years of service--’Moffie’ begins with Van der Swart coming of age.
- 4/12/2021
- by Daniel Choi
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Lionsgate’s Voyagers isn’t your ordinary “the human race is in danger” sci fi romp.
Written and directed by Neil Burger Voyagers follows a group of young men and women bred specifically to have a great level of intelligence and obedience as they embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet.
Sounds like good, safe fun, right? Well, if it was it wouldn’t be a movie worth watching.
It doesn’t take long for the young group of what could be manufactured automatons to start to uncover disturbing secrets about the mission. As things begin to unravel, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As a result, the entire ship becomes chaos in space as they’re consumed by fear, lust, and the insatiable hunger for power.
Voyagers stars Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Fionn Whitehead, Chanté Adams, Isaac Hempstead Wright,...
Written and directed by Neil Burger Voyagers follows a group of young men and women bred specifically to have a great level of intelligence and obedience as they embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet.
Sounds like good, safe fun, right? Well, if it was it wouldn’t be a movie worth watching.
It doesn’t take long for the young group of what could be manufactured automatons to start to uncover disturbing secrets about the mission. As things begin to unravel, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As a result, the entire ship becomes chaos in space as they’re consumed by fear, lust, and the insatiable hunger for power.
Voyagers stars Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Fionn Whitehead, Chanté Adams, Isaac Hempstead Wright,...
- 4/9/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
There is no more delicious agony than the one felt when you’re sitting millimeters from your crush, wondering who’s going to make the first move, or if someone will at all. That unbearable, painful erotic tension is more or less the sustained mood of Oliver Hermanus’ shimmering and sensual military drama “Moffie,” which is Set in 1981 South Africa at the apex of the South African Border War, the film’s story of gay unrequited desire turns out to be a casing for something far more lethal in its marrow.
“Moffie” is Afrikaans slang for “faggot,” and the film, which is based on André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel of the same name, attempts a bold gesture in reclaiming epithet as an emblem of power. It’s 1981, South Africa, which means it’s not okay to be a “moffie”; effeminacy is a sign of weakness, and being gay is also illegal.
“Moffie” is Afrikaans slang for “faggot,” and the film, which is based on André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel of the same name, attempts a bold gesture in reclaiming epithet as an emblem of power. It’s 1981, South Africa, which means it’s not okay to be a “moffie”; effeminacy is a sign of weakness, and being gay is also illegal.
- 4/9/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Moffie has been on the circuit for a couple of years, picking up awards and acclaim everywhere it goes. Now it finally lands in the US, and to mark the occasion we had the pleasure of speaking to the film’s leading star, Kai Luke Brummer.
The South African actor discusses playing a lead role without a huge amount of dialogue, and the rewarding, if challenging aspects of shooting a film of this nature, both mentally and physically. He speaks about South Africa’s recent history, and what he learnt from conversations with his father, and comments on how much the Apartheid is taught at school, and what this experience also taught him on the nation’s history. Finally we speak about the film’s controversial title, and he tells us why he’s soon moving to London (and whether he’s going to pack a coat!).
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The South African actor discusses playing a lead role without a huge amount of dialogue, and the rewarding, if challenging aspects of shooting a film of this nature, both mentally and physically. He speaks about South Africa’s recent history, and what he learnt from conversations with his father, and comments on how much the Apartheid is taught at school, and what this experience also taught him on the nation’s history. Finally we speak about the film’s controversial title, and he tells us why he’s soon moving to London (and whether he’s going to pack a coat!).
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- 4/9/2021
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
For his first film on Apartheid, South African director Oliver Hermanus did not expect to focus on the trauma of white men.
Hermanus, who was born in Cape Town and now lives in London, is mixed race, the group labeled “colored” under the racist regime that ruled South Africa until the early 1990s. But Moffie, his first film set in the apartheid era, is told from the white point of view.
The film is set in the early 1980s. We follow Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), a shy, closeted gay recruit drafted, like all white men over 16 ...
Hermanus, who was born in Cape Town and now lives in London, is mixed race, the group labeled “colored” under the racist regime that ruled South Africa until the early 1990s. But Moffie, his first film set in the apartheid era, is told from the white point of view.
The film is set in the early 1980s. We follow Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), a shy, closeted gay recruit drafted, like all white men over 16 ...
For his first film on Apartheid, South African director Oliver Hermanus did not expect to focus on the trauma of white men.
Hermanus, who was born in Cape Town and now lives in London, is mixed race, the group labeled “colored” under the racist regime that ruled South Africa until the early 1990s. But Moffie, his first film set in the apartheid era, is told from the white point of view.
The film is set in the early 1980s. We follow Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), a shy, closeted gay recruit drafted, like all white men over 16 ...
Hermanus, who was born in Cape Town and now lives in London, is mixed race, the group labeled “colored” under the racist regime that ruled South Africa until the early 1990s. But Moffie, his first film set in the apartheid era, is told from the white point of view.
The film is set in the early 1980s. We follow Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), a shy, closeted gay recruit drafted, like all white men over 16 ...
Given the Apartheid-era backdrop of Moffie, there are more than enough prejudices to go around — anti-black, anti-gay, anti-communist, anti-British, for starters — and South African director Oliver Hermanus makes nuanced use of all of them in his very fine fourth feature. Premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019, the film is at last being released in the U.S. by IFC beginning April 9 and is nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer,
The title is derogatory local slang for queer and, from the evidence on view here, one gleans that there cannot have been many less gay-friendly places on Earth in 1981 than South Africa. Based on an autobiographical novel by south African writer Andre Carl van der Swart, the film lifts the lid on same-sex desire just enough to stir the pot but refuses to indulge in any unrealistic wish fulfillment when depicting a...
The title is derogatory local slang for queer and, from the evidence on view here, one gleans that there cannot have been many less gay-friendly places on Earth in 1981 than South Africa. Based on an autobiographical novel by south African writer Andre Carl van der Swart, the film lifts the lid on same-sex desire just enough to stir the pot but refuses to indulge in any unrealistic wish fulfillment when depicting a...
- 3/29/2021
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Moffie Trailers — Oliver Hermanus‘ Moffie (2019) movie trailers (international and U.S.) have been released by IFC Films. The Moffie trailers stars Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Stefan Vermaak, Hilton Pelser, Jan Combrink, Brendan Christopher Van Zyl, Dale Lourens, Ludwig Baxter, Jacques Theron, Israel Ngqawuza, and Matthew Vey. Crew Oliver Hermanus and [...]
Continue reading: Moffie Trailers: A Soldier Tries to Defend the South African Apartheid Regime in Oliver Hermanus’ 2019 Movie...
Continue reading: Moffie Trailers: A Soldier Tries to Defend the South African Apartheid Regime in Oliver Hermanus’ 2019 Movie...
- 3/11/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Exclusive: Hot off of a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer, South African drama Moffie is due to release in select U.S. theaters and on digital and VOD platforms via IFC Films on April 9. Check out the new trailer above.
Written and directed by Oliver Hermanus, the movie explores the life of a closeted young boy serving his mandatory military service during Apartheid in 1980s South Africa. An adaptation of André-Carl van der Merwe’s iconic memoir, the film exposes the psychological violence of institutionalized homophobia. “Moffie” is a potent and derogatory Afrikaans term for homosexual.
The Afrikaans- and English-language title originally premiered as part of the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section in 2019 and later played the London Film Festival, going on to receive three nominations at the British Independent Film Awards. On Tuesday this week, Moffie’s writer/producer Jack Sidey was nominated for a BAFTA.
Written and directed by Oliver Hermanus, the movie explores the life of a closeted young boy serving his mandatory military service during Apartheid in 1980s South Africa. An adaptation of André-Carl van der Merwe’s iconic memoir, the film exposes the psychological violence of institutionalized homophobia. “Moffie” is a potent and derogatory Afrikaans term for homosexual.
The Afrikaans- and English-language title originally premiered as part of the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section in 2019 and later played the London Film Festival, going on to receive three nominations at the British Independent Film Awards. On Tuesday this week, Moffie’s writer/producer Jack Sidey was nominated for a BAFTA.
- 3/10/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The Venice festival premiere has been set for an April launch in the US.
IFC Films has bought North American rights to queer war film Moffie, from South African director Oliver Hermanus and UK independent Portobello Productions.
IFC has set the film, which opened in South Africa and the UK earlier this year, for a release in April, 2021.
Set against the backdrop of the Apartheid-era South African Border War and adapted from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel by Hermanus and Portobello’s Jack Sidey, Moffie premiered at last year’s Venice film festival. Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers,...
IFC Films has bought North American rights to queer war film Moffie, from South African director Oliver Hermanus and UK independent Portobello Productions.
IFC has set the film, which opened in South Africa and the UK earlier this year, for a release in April, 2021.
Set against the backdrop of the Apartheid-era South African Border War and adapted from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel by Hermanus and Portobello’s Jack Sidey, Moffie premiered at last year’s Venice film festival. Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers,...
- 12/18/2020
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The Venice festival premiere has been set for an April launch in the US.
IFC Films has bought North American rights to queer war film Moffie, from South African director Oliver Hermanus and UK independent Portobello Productions.
IFC has set the film, which opened in South Africa and the UK earlier this year, for a release in April, 2021.
Set against the backdrop of the Apartheid-era South African Border War and adapted from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel by Hermanus and Portobello’s Jack Sidey, Moffie premiered at last year’s Venice film festival. Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers,...
IFC Films has bought North American rights to queer war film Moffie, from South African director Oliver Hermanus and UK independent Portobello Productions.
IFC has set the film, which opened in South Africa and the UK earlier this year, for a release in April, 2021.
Set against the backdrop of the Apartheid-era South African Border War and adapted from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel by Hermanus and Portobello’s Jack Sidey, Moffie premiered at last year’s Venice film festival. Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers,...
- 12/18/2020
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films has nabbed North American rights to South African Oliver Hermanus’ “Moffie,” a queer war film that is set against the backdrop of a South African border war. The indie studio will release the film in April 2021.
Hermanus directs the film and adapted the story from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical 2006 novel with Jack Sidey. “Moffie” premiered at this year’s Venice International Film Festival. It was a homecoming of sorts for the director, whose previous feature, “The Endless River,” was the first South African film to be nominated for the Golden Lion.
“‘Moffie’ is a brilliant cinematic vision with a powerful message that will inspire audiences and critics alike,” Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films, said in a statement. “We’re thrilled to come on board with such an accomplished film and singular directorial voice.”
“Moffie” stars Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Stefan Vermaak,...
Hermanus directs the film and adapted the story from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical 2006 novel with Jack Sidey. “Moffie” premiered at this year’s Venice International Film Festival. It was a homecoming of sorts for the director, whose previous feature, “The Endless River,” was the first South African film to be nominated for the Golden Lion.
“‘Moffie’ is a brilliant cinematic vision with a powerful message that will inspire audiences and critics alike,” Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films, said in a statement. “We’re thrilled to come on board with such an accomplished film and singular directorial voice.”
“Moffie” stars Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Stefan Vermaak,...
- 12/17/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
For over twenty years, the government of South Africa fought a bitter war of attrition against the Cuba-backed People’s Liberation Army of Namibia, based for most of the conflict in neighbouring Angola. Thousands died for the cause of driving out Communist elements from South Africa’s periphery, and bolstering the Apartheid state’s claim to Western legitimacy.
Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer) has very little interest in all that, nor the heterosexual porno magazine given to him by his estranged father before he leaves for the Angolan border. Like every white boy over 16, Nick is expected to enrol, in much the same way as he is expected to enjoy the porn.
Based on the autobiographical novel by André Carl van der Merwe, Moffie (whose title refers to a homophobic slur in Afrikaans) is a neat enough telling of Nick’s experiences in the uber-macho training camp and...
Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer) has very little interest in all that, nor the heterosexual porno magazine given to him by his estranged father before he leaves for the Angolan border. Like every white boy over 16, Nick is expected to enrol, in much the same way as he is expected to enjoy the porn.
Based on the autobiographical novel by André Carl van der Merwe, Moffie (whose title refers to a homophobic slur in Afrikaans) is a neat enough telling of Nick’s experiences in the uber-macho training camp and...
- 4/28/2020
- by Adam Solomons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The vicious racism of Apartheid is eloquently equated with the shame, humiliation and psychological violence of institutionalized homophobia in Moffie, a powerful drama set in 1981 South Africa, when homosexuality was still a punishable crime. Director Oliver Hermanus returns to Venice and to top form after the visually stunning but narratively muddled genre exercise of his 2015 competition entry, The Endless River. His new film feels intensely personal in its intimate observation of a closeted gay military conscript, played with mesmerizing internalized anxiety by Kai Luke Brummer. It's often tough to watch, but that harshness is mitigated by moments of aching ...
The vicious racism of Apartheid is eloquently equated with the shame, humiliation and psychological violence of institutionalized homophobia in Moffie, a powerful drama set in 1981 South Africa, when homosexuality was still a punishable crime. Director Oliver Hermanus returns to Venice and to top form after the visually stunning but narratively muddled genre exercise of his 2015 competition entry, The Endless River. His new film feels intensely personal in its intimate observation of a closeted gay military conscript, played with mesmerizing internalized anxiety by Kai Luke Brummer. It's often tough to watch, but that harshness is mitigated by moments of aching ...
The Afrikaans word “moffie” is South Africa’s answer to “faggot”: an anti-gay slur used liberally and illiberally across the country’s tangle of languages, in casual playground teasing or brutal bigoted assault alike. If it sounds ineffectively soft and silly on the tongue, trust that it can land with the targeted force of a bullet. We inevitably hear it a lot, hurled with equal viciousness and exuberance, in “Moffie,” the piercing, perfectly formed new film from Oliver Hermanus — in which a closeted, terrified teenager is conscripted and sent to war on the Angolan border in 1981. Each time the word is spoken, it burrows a little deeper under the skin: Anyone who grew up gay in pre-millennial South Africa may need to dig their nails into their armrest to get through what is
Following three fine features of steadily increasing ambition, “Moffie” is Hermanus’ masterpiece in the true sense...
Following three fine features of steadily increasing ambition, “Moffie” is Hermanus’ masterpiece in the true sense...
- 9/5/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The year is 1981, and South Africa’s apartheid government is embroiled in a vicious war along the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of 16, Nicholas Van der Swart is conscripted for two years of mandatory military service—a brutal period of indoctrination as the white minority government seeks to protect its borders from the threat of communism and “die swart gevaar” (“the black danger”).
For Nicholas (Kai Luke Brummer), that service grows increasingly fraught when he finds himself attracted to a fellow conscript. In a world where the word “moffie” — an Afrikaans slur for “gay” — is used to berate anyone who doesn’t live up to a perceived masculine ideal, Nicholas has to come to terms with his desires while also surviving a war being fought on behalf of a government whose racist policies had already made it a pariah state around the world.
“Moffie” is...
For Nicholas (Kai Luke Brummer), that service grows increasingly fraught when he finds himself attracted to a fellow conscript. In a world where the word “moffie” — an Afrikaans slur for “gay” — is used to berate anyone who doesn’t live up to a perceived masculine ideal, Nicholas has to come to terms with his desires while also surviving a war being fought on behalf of a government whose racist policies had already made it a pariah state around the world.
“Moffie” is...
- 9/1/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Fanny Lye Deliver’d, starring Maxine Peake, and Honey Boy, featuring Shia Labeouf, are among the titles competing in competition at the London Film Festival.
The 63rd BFI London Film Festival has unveiled the ten films to compete with 60% of the features directed or co-directed by women, while Isabel Sandoval, who directed Lingua Franca, is the first transgender director to compete in Official Competition.
The films are Thomas Clay’s Fanny Lye Deliver’d, Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy, Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona, Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca, Oliver Hermanus’ Moffie, Alejandro Landes’ Monos, Małgorzata Szumowska’s The Other Lamb, Haifaa Al Mansour’s The Perfect Candidate, Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s Rose Plays Julie and Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (full details below).
The Best Film winner will be chosen by the Official Competition Jury, the members of which will be announced in the coming weeks. Recent...
The 63rd BFI London Film Festival has unveiled the ten films to compete with 60% of the features directed or co-directed by women, while Isabel Sandoval, who directed Lingua Franca, is the first transgender director to compete in Official Competition.
The films are Thomas Clay’s Fanny Lye Deliver’d, Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy, Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona, Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca, Oliver Hermanus’ Moffie, Alejandro Landes’ Monos, Małgorzata Szumowska’s The Other Lamb, Haifaa Al Mansour’s The Perfect Candidate, Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s Rose Plays Julie and Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (full details below).
The Best Film winner will be chosen by the Official Competition Jury, the members of which will be announced in the coming weeks. Recent...
- 8/28/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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