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

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Stray Bear Productions

37 Warren Street
London
W1T 6AD
UK

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