(S’dumo Mtshali)
iNumber Number, the South African thriller written and
directed by Donovan Marsh, won the coveted Audience Choice Award at the third
annual Jozi Film Festival. The film opens in cinemas nationwide on April 25.
This is
South African director Donovan Marsh’s fourth film. An award-winning director,
writer and editor, he has worked in the local film industry since 1992. He
wrote and directed the feature films Dollars
and White Pipes, Spud and Spud 2: The
Madness Continues.
iNumber Number follows an honest undercover cop who, after
being cheated out of a promotion, crosses over to become a part of a
cash-in-transit heist gang. The film, which stars former Durban actor S'dumo
Mtshali and Presley Chweneyagae, had its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto
Film Festival in September 2013. It was produced by Marsh, Quizzical Pictures'
Harriet Gavshon, JP Potgieter and Mariki van der Walt, and executive produced by
Nim Geva and Owen Kessel.
An
action-packed movie, iNumber Number
is about a pair of cops battling corrupt colleagues as well as a gang of
armoured-car thieves. Chili (S'dumo Mtshali, winner of Class Act in 2010), and Shoes (Presley Chweneyagae of Tsotsi and State of Violence fame) have been partners in the police force for
eight years. After they make a risky arrest, their corrupt superior refuses to
give them the reward they are due. Enraged, Chili realises that honesty does
not pay and sets about infiltrating a gang of armoured car thieves.
His
scheme goes awry when the gang discovers his true identity. They take Shoes
hostage and go through with the heist. Lured by the potential loot but finding
himself in the midst of a killing spree, Chili has to shake off his rage and
cynicism to do the right thing. The film boasts an oddball cast that brings
comic relief to the ruthless thuggery.
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