Dead River

  • Dead River
© Courtesy FPDC - Festival Pontino del Cortometraggio, Latina
Genre : Musical
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2012
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 34 (in minutes)
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Timeless Melodies Know No Skin Colour.

Set against the backdrop of Apartheid in Namibia during the 1980s, ‘Dead River' follows the unlikely friendship between a black boy and a white girl. David, son of a farm worker, and Lisa, daughter of the farmer, meet through the melodies she plays on her flute while at her mother's grave and he starts whistling along to.
Lisa's father, the disgruntled widower Adolf von Dornstedt, outlaws the friendship and sends his daughter to the hostel.
Years later, yet before the end of Apartheid, Lisa returns to the farm as a young woman and meets David again. The bond is as strong as ever. Hoping to help him in these troubled times, she hands him one of her father's guns. Events take a turn for the worse and Lisa sees no other option than to flee the country.
20 years later Lisa returns. She is here to face her past and to visit the graves at Dead River.

A film by Tim Huebschle, 2012, Namibia, 34 min, short, fiction



CAST
Lisa von Dornstedt: Christin Meinecke-Mareka
Adolf von Dornstedt: Jens Schneider
David (Teen): Erven Katiti
David: David Ndjavera
Young Lisa: Jade Coury
Young David: Shaquille Shikwambi
Evelyne Matthews: Esi Chase
Sofie: Nadine Baas
David (Lisa's Son): Benjamin Coury
Lisa's Ex-Husband: Christian Mahnke

CREW
Director: Tim Huebschle
Producer: Marinda Stein
Executive Producer: Cecil Moller
Screenplay: Tim Huebschle (based on a story by Rolf Ackermann)
Director of Photography: Frederik Füssel
Editor: Haiko Boldt
Production Designer: Stephan Eins
Music Composer: Alessandro Alessandroni
Sound Design, Sound Edit, Sound Recording: David Benadé
Casting: Tim Huebschle & Marinda Stein
1st Camera Assistant: Renier de Bruyn
Wardrobe: Ina-Maria Shikongo
Unit Manager: Gerson Gawanab
Assistant Director: Nealen Jacobs
Make-Up: Beverly Kulan Ganes
Art Department Assistant: Gina Figueira
Visual FX: Christof van Niekerk
Grips: Benito Xoagub
Lighting: Jaco Strauss
Crane Operator: Bernd Curschmann
Production Driver: Tommy Kayele
Stills Photographer: Haiko Boldt

Production Country: Namibia
Running Time: 33 min 50 sec

Production Company: Collective Productions
Funding of Production: Namibia Film Commission
Shooting Format: HD (1920x1080, 25p)
Audio Format: 48 Khz, 16-bit, Stereo
Exhibition Formats: MOV (Apple Pro Res 422), MP4, DVD, DVCAM,
HDV (1440x1080, 50i); optional: DigiBeta, HDCAM


CONTACT
Christian Mahnke
Cell : +264 855630949,
Email: africavenir.whk(at)googlemail.com

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ITALIANO

Ambientato durante l'apartheid in Namibia, Dead River segue l'amicizia improbabile del figlio di un lavoratore agricolo e la figlia del contadino. David e Lisa si incontrano attraverso le melodie che suona flauto di lei e lui fischietta. Il padre di lei non vuole l'amicizia e la manda via. Prima della fine dell'Apartheid, Lisa torna alla fattoria come una giovane donna e incontra di nuovo David. Gli eventi prendono una brutta piega e Lisa non vede altra scelta che fuggire dal paese. Molti anni dopo, Lisa ritorna. Lei è qui per affrontare il suo passato e per visitare le tombe a Dead River.

di Tim Huebschle

Nazionalità: Windhoek (Namibia)

Produzione: Collective Productions

Generi: drammatico sentimentale storico

Temi: bambini, politica, storia e tradizioni, guerra, amicizia, africa

Formato di Ripresa: HD

Durata (minuti): 34

Anno di Produzione: 2012

Soggetto: Rolf Ackermann

Sceneggiatura: Tim Huebschle

Montaggio: Haiko Boldt

Fotografia: Frederik Füssel

Interpreti :- Christin Meinecke-Mareka, - Jens Schneider, - Erven Katiti,- David Ndjavera, - Jade Coury, - Shaquille Shikwambi

Suono: David Benadé

Musiche: Alessandro Alessandroni

Età Regista: 35 (Giugno 2013)
Numero Opere Dirette Regista: 10+


2013 | IX Edizione - Festival Pontino del Cortometraggio | LATINA, Italia - 18-23 Giugno 2013
* won: Audience Choice Award for Best International Short Film (MIGLIOR CORTO DAL PUBBLICO INTERNAZIONALE)
* Sezione cortoAfrica
* Giorno di Proiezione al FPDC: Venerdì 21 Giugno 2013
http://2013.fpdc.it/corto/2993/dead-river

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