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The Silent Fall
AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS COMPLETE PRODUCTION OF THE SILENT FALL
Cape Town, South Africa. Internationally acclaimed Sunrise Productions, the talent behind award-winning motion picture Legend of The Sky Kingdom, have completed production on The Silent Fall in and around Cape Town.
An exceptionally talented international cast and production team as well as the Desmond Tutu HIV AIDS Centre, who is one of the charities to receive 10% of profits of the film, has been assembled under the Sunrise Productions banner to make the feature film a reality. Backed by
US-based executive producer Johan Sturm, and driven by award winning director/writer Roger Hawkins and writer/producer Phil Cunningham, The Silent Fall is a classic example of passionate independent film making.
The story is set in motion after the brutal murder of a South African doctor who is on the brink of discovering a break through generic AIDS drug. If found to be successful, the cost-effective drug could cripple pharmaceutical giant, the Kingdom Corporation. The story explodes into a web of intrigue and danger as Kingdom's role in the doctor's death is brought into question. This, and a continent in the grips of a heartless pandemic, provide the dramatic backdrop against which heroine Dr. Thandie Khumalo's (played by US-based rising star Aaliyah Madyun) personal journey unfolds. She struggles to come to terms with her beloved colleague's murder and the loss of her friends and family to the pandemic which she has dedicated her life to fighting. Vying for her heart and mind as she searches for the truth are Lucas De Villiers (Mathew Rutherford), the charming yet ruthless CEO of Kingdom, and handsome fellow doctor Josh Kingsley (played by Justin West).
The Silent Fall is eagerly awaited from Roger Hawkins and Phil Cunningham whose last project, The Legend of the Sky Kingdom, was a huge success. The unorthodox director producer team developed an entirely new form of animated storytelling known as junkmation when they produced the feature. Nothing except actual junk was used. The result? The story won a string of awards, official selections and critical acclaim at leading international film festivals such as the International Animation Film Festival (Annecy, France), Seoul Animation Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, The London Film Festival, The New York African Film
Festival, and our local Sithengi Film Festival where they were offered a global distribution deal.
In a bold move unusual to the bottom-line world of motion picture finance, Sunrise Productions will be donating 10% of film profits to real-life heroes such as The Desmond Tutu HIV AIDS Centre and other charitable AIDS organisations. The Desmond Tutu HIV AIDS Centre in
particular is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the research, training, prevention and treatment of HIV and related diseases in South Africa.
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