KALUSHI OUT NEXT WEEK
IN a week Kalushi: The Solomon Mahlangu Story will finally hit local cinemas after nine years in the making. Written and directed by Mandla Dube and produced by Walter Ayres, the film that won the Rapid Lion Award last year and was screened at the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), the film will host it's first official screening and premire this weekend in Pretoria. But it hasn’t been an easy road for the filmmakers who’s production cost more than R20-million, as they begged and borrowed including asking the South African Air Force to assist with helicopter scenes and asking the Department of Correctional Services for permission to film at the original gallows — “which would have been expensive for us to reconstruct”. “I put my property up for sale because the funding was coming in dribs and drabs,” said Dube. Luckily, funding came through before the house was sold. “The money we had wasn’t enough and at times we pulled in favours.” It tells a s...
