A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
January 16, 2013
Original Title:
Jonah
Genres:
Fantasy
Production Companies:
BFI
Factory Fifteen
Jellyfish Pictures
Shine Pictures
Stray Bear Productions
Production Countries:
Tanzania | United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 17
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.
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Casting:
Shaheen Baig
Director:
Kibwe Tavares
Director of Photography:
Chloë Thomson
Executive Producer:
Chris Collins
Philip Dobree
Ollie Madden
Eva Yates
Original Music Composer:
Mark Sayfritz
Producer:
Ivana MacKinnon
Fiz Oliver
Sarah Wheale
Production Design:
Paul Nicholls
Visual Effects Supervisor:
Paul Nicholls
Writer:
Jack Thorne
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