The film is an intimate portrait of the brilliantly articulate, funny, defiant, complex, courageous, provocative, irrational, flamboyant, HIV positive, young, gay, and mixed race township personality – Shane St Claire.
This is a biopic unlike any other; it is David Hockney-esque collage in its make up, where a multitude of clips make up the whole, a mosaic in film, with the viewer discovering the deepest parts of a life lived in extreme circumstances. Complex, intriguing, surprising, hilarious and highly emotive; the film will leave you deeply moved and marveling at how Shane has managed to overcome enormous obstacles while living life on his own terms.
Shane will premiere on community television station, Cape Town TV, on Thursday, 25 June at 19:30. Cape Town TV is available on DSTV, channel 263, or free-to-air channels 32 and 67.
About Street Stories Films, Independent Film Makers:
Richard Mills and Jo Menell have produced the television series
Street Talk since 2008. They have also produced the documentaries
Shag,
Thembi and
Ubuntu.
Street Talk was recently honoured alongside Graça Machel in New York, at the 21
st Annual
Shared Interest Awards Gala for Raising the Voices of South Africa’s Next Generation.
South African director, Jo Menell, has 40 years of documentary filmmaking experience. Menell has directed documentaries for the BBC and PBS USA. He received an
Oscar nomination for the authorised film biography of Nelson Mandela.
Richard Mills is a director, film editor, producer, and cameraman. He has worked on various critically acclaimed television shows, news programmes, feature films and documentaries.
You can view the documentary
here.
For more information, call +27 21 424-8184 or email
[email protected].