Devil’s Lair, one of the award-winning projects from the 2012 Durban FilmMart has been selected for this year’s Hot Docs, the Canadian International Documentary Film Festival in Toronto in April/May this year.
The movie has its World Premiere at Hot Docs on 1 May 2013 and was selected as one of the Most Promising Documentary Projects at last year’s Durban FilmMart.
Produced by Neil Brandt of Fireworx Media and directed by Riaan Hendricks of A Season of Film this feature documentary uncovers the conflicting worlds that exist among the troubled communities of the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa.
The film is an intimate portrayal of one gang leader and his young family as they navigate a violent and contested physical and psychological landscape, one in which honour, love and betrayal are all too often sides of the same coin.
Brandt is excited about the movie’s selection and its world premiere at Hot Docs. “It’s at once fantastic and terrifying,’ he says. “Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market with about 200 documentaries from around the world, so the competition is tough, but we are really looking forward to the experience and to working hard at making sure our film gets the best start to its festival life possible,’ Brandt adds.
The 4th Durban FilmMart takes place from 19 to 22 July 2013 during the 34th edition of the Durban International Film Festival (from 18 to 28 July) and will present an official selection of about 10 fiction projects and 10 documentary projects.
For more information on the Durban FilmMart visit www.durbanfilmmart.com. Entries to this year’s DFM are now closed.
For further enquires contact info@durbanfilmmart.com.
The trailer link for Devil’s Lair is http://www.hotdocs.ca//film/title/devils_lair.
