Jump the Gun

  • Jump the Gun
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1996
Format : Feature
Running time : 110 (in minutes)

Everything takes place in post-apartheid Johannesburg. Cling and Gugu and others looking for an identity meet each other. Each of them already has a story. Elle hid her husband and came to live in her aunt's house. Clint, who is an electrician, came to town to relax. Bazooka, an old activist, is a dealer who sells everything on the black market and offers Gugu to get her into the life of Soweto. They all meet at J.J.s'Bar to listen to Joe Nina, a musician who blends rap, pop and jazz.

Cast:
Baby CELE (Gugu)
Lionel NEWTON (Clinton)
Rapulana SEIPHEMO (Thabo)
Thulani NYEMBE (Bazooka)
Michèle BURGERS (Minnie)
Danny KEOGH (J.J.)
Joe NINA (Henry)

Director: Les BLAIR
Images: Seamus McGARVEY
Music: Joe NINA
Production: Parallax Xencat Pictures, Channel Four Films

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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