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Jonah

  • Jonah
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Genre : Science fiction
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2012
Format : Short
Running time : 17 (in minutes)
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When two young men photograph a gigantic fish leaping from the sea, their small town becomes a tourist attraction in this story about the old and the new.

A film by Kibwe Tavares

2012, Short, 17 minutes, color, Tanzania/United Kingdom


BFI, Film4 and Shine Pictures Present

JONAH

Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed - and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.


A Stray Bear Production in association with Jellyfish Pictures

From the imagination of Factory Fifteen

Directed by Kibwe Tavares
Written by Jack Thorne
Produced by Ivana MacKinnon

Starring
Daniel Kaluuya
Malachi Kirby
and Louis Mahoney

Jonah Trailer from Factory Fifteen on Vimeo.



Executive Producers - Katherine Butler, Ollie Madden, Chris Collins, Phil Dobree, Eva Yates

Co-Producer - Fiz Oliver
Line Producer - Sarah Jane Wheale
Editor - Adam Biskupsi
Cinematographer - Chloe Thomson
Production Designer: Paul Nicholls and Jonathan Gales
Fish Concept Art - Warren Holder
Composer - Mark Sayfritz
Sound Recordist - Will Whale
Costume Designer- Celia Lusted
Casting Directors - Aisha Waters, Saheem Baig

Contact:
Ivana MacKinnon
Stray Bear Productions
Mackinnonivana(@)gmail.com

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