To be announced – We love this film but the work to organise its screening is still in progress.
This feel-good offering with plenty of romance to go with the laughs, is a low budget road movie that took 19 days to shoot on a budget of 6m rand (£450,000), yet in less than two months it has become one of South Africa’s most successful films and has enjoyed unprecedented mass appeal since its release in South Africa.
Elvis leaves Johannesburg to pick up his best friend and his best man Tumi in Durban and so begin the race against time to be getting to his wedding. They suffer misadventures along the way to the wedding in Cape Town. Along the way the offer a lift to a heart broken British doctor Rose (played by Huddersfield born actress Jodie Walker) who had fled the altar after discovering her fiancée had been unfaithful to her. In Cape Town the beautiful Ayunda (Zandile Msutwana) is anxiously awaiting their arrival as well as having to deal with her mother’s wish for a traditional wedding and the unwanted attention of Tony the township boy turned flashy entrepreneur.
Director: Jann Turner
Writers: Jann Turner, Kenneth Nkosi, Rapulana Seiphemo
Cast: Rapulana Seiphemo, Kenneth Nkosi
Country: South Africa
Year: 2008
Runtime: 93 min
