Global Creative Studios’ “Faith like Potatoes’ was recently awarded the prestigious coveted “Golden Ten Award’ at a film festival held in Mumbai, India.
This festival, known as The Sport Movies & TV Festival, (started in 1982), is the most important Worldwide Festival dedicated to sports television and movies. It enjoys the patronage of the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and is organised by FICTS (The Federation International Cinema Television Sports)
The awards were presented by festival director Ritesh Sinha, where close to 32 countries participated. “Faith like Potatoes’ received the “Golden Ten Award’ for the best non-sport feature film.
This marks the young production company’s third international award for this film, having competed at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, the Australian International Film Festival and the Sabaoth International Film Festival in Italy, where it took home the “People’s Choice’ Award.
Based on the autobiography of Angus Buchan and adapted to the big screen by Regardt van den Bergh, “Faith Like Potatoes” tells the moving life story of a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, played by well-known South African actor, Frank Rautenbach (Tiaan from “7de Laan’).
It also recently won the Best Film Award at the Kingdom Film Festival held in Durban, where local filmmakers are offered a platform to have their work screened at a mainstream cinema to showcase their talent. The festival operates under the tagline “our vision our stories’, and is specifically mandated to promote local South African filmmakers and screen performers.
The “Faith like Potatoes’ double DVD has managed record sales with 35 000 copies sold after a mere two months, making this film the second highest DVD seller for a SA production after “Tsotsi’, which sold 51 000 copies locally. Frans Cronje, producer of Global Creative Studios is confident that he will sell more than 100 000 copies.
Cronje also calls on the public to be aware that illegal copies of the film are being sold on street corners. He says, “It is disappointing to see piracy pop up it is ugly head and I appeal to the South African public for their support in not buying pirated copies”.
