Screen Africa is able to offer readers a special sneak preview of the upcoming blockbuster, Vantage Point as well as a free give away camera.

Fans of action films will be totally entertained and surprised with the new camera and editing techniques used in the upcoming blockbuster, Vantage Point.

Staring Dennis Quad, Matthew Fox, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker and Sigourney Weaver, this masterpiece will enthrall editors, directors and DOP’s as well as camera operators as eight different stories unfold from eight different points of view.

Join us on Tuesday 25 March at 18h00 as we premier this movie to Screen Africa readers. The first 40 to email info@screenafrica.com will secure their seats. Also to qualify for a seat, please provide your name, tel no, email address and what you do in the industry.

Vantage Point releases at cinemas across South Africa on the 11th of April 2008.

SCREEN AFRICA GIVE AWAY WITH VANTAGE POINT

Vantage Point is the ultimate action film for film makers. Showcasing new camera and editing techniques, this film has the kind of all star cast and crew that we’d all love to work with.

Together with Vantage Point, Sony and Ster-Kinekor Distribution, Screen Africa is giving away a Sony Cybershot Camera valued at over R3000 to a lucky subscriber. All you need to do to stand a chance to win is read the synopsis below and answer the question.

Vantage Point releases on the 11 April at Cinema’s country wide. Vantage Point tells the story of eight strangers with eight different points of view who try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror.

When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide in the hunt for the assassin. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), an American tourist who thinks he’s captured the shooter on his camcorder while videotaping the event for his kids back home.

Also there, relaying the historic event to millions of TV viewers across the globe, is American TV news producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver). As they and others reveal their stories, the pieces of the puzzle will fall into place.

Using new camera and editing techniques, Vantage Point takes the action genre to new heights and levels of skill from a film maker’s point of view.

For director Pete Travis this story was a chance to explore the idea of “the truth” – and the fact that truth is in the eye of the beholder. As Vantage Point unfolds, the film explores the period immediately before and after the assassination attempt from the unique points of view of eight key participants – ranging from the president himself to the Secret Service agents assigned to protect him to a tourist in the square only by chance.

“If you were to follow only one story, you wouldn’t find out the truth about what really happened,” says Travis. “As you see each story, you see something else that you never knew before. It’s only when you get to the end that you figure out what really went on.”

Film makers were called upon to use every tool available to differentiate the stories. Whether it was through the use of different lenses, or different film stock, or lighting, or different ways of shooting, such as handheld cameras, Steadicam, dollies, they used different tricks to try to make each of these stories feel individual, to keep the audience interested in the twists and turns and invested in each character’s story.