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Rising South African actress Ama Qamata, the star of Netflix’s breakout hit Blood and Water, has signed on to star as a female boxer in Fight Like a Girl, an upcoming feature from writer/director Matthew Leutwyler (The River Why, Uncanny).
Qamata will star alongside Nigerian actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Godzilla vs. Kong, Starz TV’s Black Sails) as a young Congolese woman forced to work in an illegal mineral mine who manages to escapes her captors and find a new life for herself after joining an all-women boxing club in the border city of Goma.
The film, billed as the first-ever Western narrative feature to shoot entirely in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is inspired by a real-life boxing club that Leutwyler and producing partner Anton Laines have been following for the past two years as part of an upcoming docu-series. Several...
Rising South African actress Ama Qamata, the star of Netflix’s breakout hit Blood and Water, has signed on to star as a female boxer in Fight Like a Girl, an upcoming feature from writer/director Matthew Leutwyler (The River Why, Uncanny).
Qamata will star alongside Nigerian actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Godzilla vs. Kong, Starz TV’s Black Sails) as a young Congolese woman forced to work in an illegal mineral mine who manages to escapes her captors and find a new life for herself after joining an all-women boxing club in the border city of Goma.
The film, billed as the first-ever Western narrative feature to shoot entirely in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is inspired by a real-life boxing club that Leutwyler and producing partner Anton Laines have been following for the past two years as part of an upcoming docu-series. Several...
- 12/20/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paris-based company Indie Sales has acquired Atiq Rahimi’s “Our Lady of the Nile” (“Notre-Dame du Nil”), the Kabul-born novelist-turned-director’s follow up to the “The Patience Stone.”
“Our Lady of the Nile” is adapted for the screen by Rahimi and Ramata Sy from the award-winning novel by Scholastique Mukasonga and unfolds in Rwanda in 1973.
Pic takes place at a prestigious and secluded Catholic boarding school, where the girls, an ethnic mix of majority Hutus and only 10% Tutsis, are groomed to be the Rwandan elite. But some deep-seated antagonism between the groups begins to arise at the school as well as throughout the country.
Now in post, “Our Lady of the Nile” is produced by Dimitri Rassam at Chapter 2 and Les Films du Tambour (“Sibel”).
Nicolas Eschbach, Indie Sales’ co-founder, said the “script depicts in a very vibrant and heartbreaking way the birth of the dramatic events that occurred between Hutus and Tutsis 21 years later.
“Our Lady of the Nile” is adapted for the screen by Rahimi and Ramata Sy from the award-winning novel by Scholastique Mukasonga and unfolds in Rwanda in 1973.
Pic takes place at a prestigious and secluded Catholic boarding school, where the girls, an ethnic mix of majority Hutus and only 10% Tutsis, are groomed to be the Rwandan elite. But some deep-seated antagonism between the groups begins to arise at the school as well as throughout the country.
Now in post, “Our Lady of the Nile” is produced by Dimitri Rassam at Chapter 2 and Les Films du Tambour (“Sibel”).
Nicolas Eschbach, Indie Sales’ co-founder, said the “script depicts in a very vibrant and heartbreaking way the birth of the dramatic events that occurred between Hutus and Tutsis 21 years later.
- 2/7/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile)
Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi moves into the French language with his third feature Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile), produced by Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha and Dimitri Rassam (a co-production between The Drum and Chapter 2 Films). The film is based on the 2012 novel by Scholastique Mukasonga. Noted French actor Pascal Greggory presides over a cast including Amanda Mugabekazi, Albina Kirenga, Malaika Uwamahoro, Clariella Bizimana, and Belinda Rubango. Rahimi’s 2004 debut Earth and Ashes premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes. His 2012 sophomore film The Patience Stone (read our read / interview) starred Golshifteh Farahani and premiered in the Toronto International Film Festival.…...
Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi moves into the French language with his third feature Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile), produced by Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha and Dimitri Rassam (a co-production between The Drum and Chapter 2 Films). The film is based on the 2012 novel by Scholastique Mukasonga. Noted French actor Pascal Greggory presides over a cast including Amanda Mugabekazi, Albina Kirenga, Malaika Uwamahoro, Clariella Bizimana, and Belinda Rubango. Rahimi’s 2004 debut Earth and Ashes premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes. His 2012 sophomore film The Patience Stone (read our read / interview) starred Golshifteh Farahani and premiered in the Toronto International Film Festival.…...
- 1/2/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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