Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope, a film by Baha’i director Mark Bamford, is set for release this summer by Artistic License Films.
From the website:
A profoundly optimistic film that arrives on the tenth anniversary of the end of Apartheid, Cape of Good Hope is, in the words of writer-director Mark Bamford, “a movie about people just trying to live. It’s not about black and white, it’s not about politics, but about human beings. ”
In the tradition of such rich, multi-layered, difficult-to-categorize films as Ang Lee’s Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding, and Robert Altman and John Sayles’s sociological slice-of-life pictures, Cape of Good Hope beautifully interweaves a number of storylines, all revolving around a Cape Town animal rescue shelter. The new South Africa is revealed in Cape of Good Hope, a colorful and vibrant mosaic of love and hope.
Check these reviews from AtomFilms and The New York Times as well as a great write-up of the project here.