The success of the feature White Wedding, has lead the team of celebrated writer/director Jann Turner and top South African film and TV stars Kenneth Nkosi and Rapulana Seiphemo to collaborate on a second comedy feature, Paradise Stop. The film will be released in cinemas nationwide from 25 March.
Set in a small Limpopo town Paradise Stop, is an hilarious hi-speed action comedy which centres on lives of two big men, the best of friends, but who work on opposite sides of the law.
Paradise Stop pits the honest hardworking Detective Potso Mogopudi (Rapulana Seiphemo), a good cop in a rotten system , against a host of small town crooks and big city sharks.
His friend, Ben Khumalo (Kenneth Nkosi) is the owner of the “Paradise Stop’ Truck Stop. This is the meeting place for all the long-haul carriers travelling across the border. To all everything appears clean and above board at the truck stop but under the table there are all kinds of dodgy dealings .
Like White Wedding, this latest collaboration takes a benevolent and amusing look at the vibrant ups and downs of life in current day South Africa.
Paradise Stop features performances by Sonia Sedibe , Madhuvha Madima , Nick Boraine, Lucky Legodi , Keketso Semoko , Mary Twala, Bonginkosi Thwala and Vusi Kunene.
Written by Nkosi, Seiphemo and Turner, Paradise stop PARADISE STOP is an original screenplay directed by Turner. “It’s a more ambitious action filled film than White Wedding. Although it’s a comic heist movie, it’s also a movie about corruption and how individuals navigate right and wrong in their day-to-day lives’ says Turner.
The film is executive produced by award winning novelist, Ken Follett and will be distributed locally by Indigenous Film Distribution.
