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Shooting of Swazi short film resumes

06/08/2013 02:43:00 BY NOMBULELO MATSEBULA

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MBABANE- The shooting of the film ‘Litsambo Lemuntfu Alidliwa’ has started.

The shooting is expected to take 17 days, and the completed film will be released in 2014 along with the two other films that are still to be shot under the 2013 ‘Swazi Short Film Challenge’ programme.

The Swaziland Independent Film and Television Producers Association Secretary General Samkeliso Nxumalo said the shooting was going on well as there were no glitches so far. “We started shooting on Thursday and all is going well. Out first location for the shooting is Sigulaneni. Tomorrow we are moving to our second location, which is Ticantfwini, Manzini where will shoot for four days,” Nxumalo said.

The film, written by Maswati Dludlu will be 60 minutes long, and shooting is expected to have been completed by August 21,2013.

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‘Litsambo Lemuntfu Alidliwa’ is about a God- fearing couple that is battling with infertility, and has to fight to protect the sanctity of their values which are being threatened by the married man’s traditionalist father, who insists that the couple cure the infertility through traditional methods that are at odds with the couple’s faith and modern beliefs.
The primary purpose of the ‘Swazi Short Film Challenge’ is to develop skills, produce local content, promote mother tongue creative expression, and record, promote, as well as reflect upon the uniqueness of the Swazi way of life.

The project seeks to achieve the above goals by challenging Swazi storytellers to tell their own story through film, and developing talent within an ongoing production and mentoring them as they participate in the filmmaking process.

The production of the film has been made possible by four key stakeholders. These are: The production houses affiliated under SIFTPA; Friends of the Challenge Network; the American Embassy; and the voluntary cast and crew that has pledged to work on this production.

“Some of the companies that have reached out include Gilead Investments, which provides lighting and camera accessories, Lakitsi Productions which has contributed lighting equipment and Savusa Pictures, which contributed camera and editing facilities, among others,” Nxumalo said.