South African audiences continue to flock to cinemas to watch director Daryne Joshua’s debut feature film, Noem My Skollie, which opened in cinemas across South Africa earlier this month.
The inspirational and heart-warming film is based on the life of the scriptwriter, John W. Fredericks. Over 26,000 tickets were sold in the first three weeks and three new cinemas have been added to show the film this weekend.
Noem My Skollie is a cautionary tale about a young man who decides not to join the number gangs and instead finds a way to raise his status in prison as a storyteller. It is also about four boys coming of age on the Cape Flats, about friendship and betrayal. It is about the coloured male rites of passage and perhaps more than anything it is about the power of love, telling the story of how the lead character gets the girl of his dreams and who in real life has recently celebrated forty years of marriage to.
The film opened at the Silverscreen Film Festival (Silwerskermfees) in Cape Town on 24 September and was incredibly well received. This is a film for all South Africans and will also compete internationally. It is written in the Cape Afrikaans dialect with English sub-titles. The “word of mouth’ has been incredible with audiences responding on all social media platforms. The Facebook site has 30,000 “likes’ and the trailer has 63,000 plays on Youtube.
Noem My Skollie was produced by David Max Brown and Moshidi Motshegwa (Maxi-D Productions) in association with M-Net, kykNET the NFVF and the DTI and distributed by Ster Kinekor Entertainment.
