A FILM produced and written by the scriptwriting lecturer of a Durban-based film school is heading for the Cannes Court Metrage, the short film corner of the official Cannes Festival 2014.
The film was chosen from more than a million entries. A Shot at the Big Time was the brainchild of AFDA Durban scriptwriting lecturer, Janet van Eeden. AFDA is based in Glen Anil.
“This honour is something my co-producer, Magda Olchawska, and I have dreamed of since we joined forces to make A Shot at the Big Time, the short,” says Van Eeden.
“We met online when I ran the Indiegogo.com crowd-funding campaign in 2011. I’d given up on the dream recently and am working hard at present raising funds to make the feature film by the end of the year, so when Magda let me know late on Thursday night that we’d been accepted I was over the moon.”
A Shot at the Big Time was one of the projects selected for the Durban FilmMart in 2012 and the short film premiered at the Durban International Film Festival in July 2013. It was awarded an eThekwini Film Award in November 2013.
