Stiff

  • Stiff
Genre : Comedy
Type : Fiction
Original title : One-Way Ticket [previous title]
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2014
Format : Short
Running time : 13 (in minutes)
http://www.samanthanell.com/stiff/

Tholang has been working as an undertaker in Soweto for as long as anyone can remember. He's great with death, but not particularly good with life. Things go awry when his niece arrives to apprentice under him and manages to lose the corpse of an important politician. Over the course of this adventure Tholang must face the world he has been avoiding all these years.

A film de Samantha Nell

South Africa, 2014, Fiction, 13 min, Comedy

starring avec Jerry Mofokeng, Lebo Mazibuko, Ma Marry, Harriet Manamela, Michael Mabizela, Dorothy-Ann Gould


Stiff - Trailer from Samantha Nell on Vimeo.



Written & Directed by Samantha Nell
Produced by Jean Lee & Samantha Nell
Cinematography by Devin Toselli
Production Design by Alex-Ann Keppie
Edited by Jennifer Barbot
Associate Producer Mambila Mageza
Original Score by Anthony Haenen

CAST
Tholang : Jerry Mofokeng
Nthabiseng : Lebo Mazibuko
Mrs. Cele : Ma Marry
Mrs. Ngoma : Harriet Manamela
Lwazi : Michael Mabizela
Edith : Dorothy-Ann Gould

Director/Writer: Samantha Nell
Producer: Jean Lee, Samantha Nell
Executive Producer: Ulysses M. Goldstein
Cinematographer: Devin Toselli
Production Designer: Alex-Ann Keppie
Editor: Jennifer Barbot
Associate Producer: Mambila Mageza
Composer: Anthony Haenen
Line Producer: Eve Symington
Unit Manager: David Mokoena
First Assistant Director: Eve Symington
Second Assistant Director: Archibald Mpapele
Key Grip: Riaan Hanekom
Best Boy Grip: Julian Foster
Key Gaffer: Jean Du Plessis
Best Boy Gaffer: Vukani Khawula
First Assistant Camera: Charles Hunter Ryder
Sound Recordist: President Kapa
Wardrobe Master: Vuyo Mokwena
Wardrobe Assistant: Gesillah McLeod
Art Department: Tarryn Hatchett, Eve Rakow
Makeup: Angelique Pepeler
SFX Makeup: Denita Goosen
Production Assistant: Mark Middlewick
Stills Photographer: Patrick Dinneen
Script Editor: Lydia Cowdery
Translator: Rethabile Molatela Mothobi
Online Editor: Warwick Allan
Colourist: Michele Wilson
Final Mix Engineer: Charlotte Buys

produced in association with Africa Fisrt (Focus Features)


2015 | DIFF - Durban International Film Festival, South Africa
* Selection - "People" (Short film programme)

2015 | AFRIFF - Africa International Film Festival, Nigeria
* Best Short Film
https://afriff.com/movies/best-short-film-stiff-by-samantha-nell/

2015 | Palm Springs International ShortsFest 2014, USA
* World Premiere

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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