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esCape Town

Synopsis

Edgar Combrink, a perpetual re-offender, is released back to the gang ridden Cape Flats to a family he hardly knows. To a forgotten suburb rife with unemployment and social decay in one of the most unequal cities in the world; Cape Town. Now that his daughter is starting high school, he needs to resist the ever present pull of crime, if he wants to see her graduate.
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Details

Year
2020
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
13:58
Format
Digital
Director
Colin Macrae
Producer
Colin Macrae
Executive Producer
Sam Firth
Editor
Jonathen Menzin
Director of Photography
Jurie Senekel
Sound
Ricardo Sipho
Composer
Tatiana Mikova
Sound Design and Rerecording Mix
Tomas Nohal

Genre

Human Rights Scottish

Categories

Documentary

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Shway Shway Films

Bright Red Triangle
10 Colinton Road Edinburgh
EH10 5DT United Kingdom

+44 (0)7512 272717

Sales Company

Shway Shway Films

Bright Red Triangle
10 Colinton Road Edinburgh
EH10 5DT United Kingdom

+44 (0)7512 272717

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