Project Detail

Jonah

Synopsis

Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive.
Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.

Details

Year: 2013
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 17 mins
Format: Digital
Director: Kibwe Tavares
Producer: Ivana MacKinnon
Co-Producer: Fiz Oliver
Executive Producer: Katherine Butler, Ollie Madden, Chris Collins, Phil Dobree
Editor: Adam biskupski
Screenwriter: Jack Thorne
Director of Photography: Chloe Thompson
Production Designer: Paul Nicholls, Jonathan Gales
Sound: Will Whale
Composer: Mark Sayfritz
Principal cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Louis Mahoney, Malachi Kirby

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Stray Bear Productions

37 Warren Street
London
W1T 6AD
UK

mackinnonivana@gmail.com

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