First South African Cell phone movie

Aryan Kaganof, the prolific writer/director of numerous feature films, shorts and video is to direct 35mm feature film, entitled SMS Sugar Man, shot on a cameraphone, according to Mobile Africa.

The story is an original idea of Kaganof's, and takes place on Christmas eve, and centres on a Johannesburg pimp, who drives four of his ladies around the city. A feel good story on a dark evening, for the modern urban viewer.

"The evolution of this technology is perfect to tell this story, which uses cellphones as an integral part of the narrative. The girls are umbilically linked to each other and Sugar Man through their phones" says Kaganof.

... The film will be shot in the dead of night, during December, and ready for distribution on a variety of distribution platforms in September 2006."

emily | 5:05 PM | Movies on Cell Phones |
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