(Director
Eubulus Timothy with producer Jacintha Timothy on location on Durban’s
beachfront)
After 29 days of filming in Durban, local
film production company Arclight, begins the next stage of their journey with
the post-production on their surf-flick Deep
End in the in the City.
Filmed in Durban on a fairly healthy budget
of R4 million, with a completely local crew, Deep End is funded by the DTI and KZN Film Commission with
production house investment as well.
The film is directed by well-known
award-winning director, Eubulus Timothy who is chairperson of the Durban
Filmmakers Guild, vice chairperson of Writer’s Guild of South Africa, and a
recipient of the prestigious Harley-Merrill Screenwriting Award (Hollywood).
Jacintha Timothy of Arclight Distributors, an established Durban-based film and
television production company, is producing the film.
“Deep
End is essentially a coming of age, surf love story,” explains Jacintha.
“It’s a warm, exciting, family movie that will resonate across the board with
audiences.”
The film centres on a beautiful 20 year-old
Indian girl, Sunitha who comes from a traditional Durban family who defies her
father, to become a competitive surfer. On the beaches she discovers a whole
new world of inter-racial love, ethnic diversity, arranged marriages, conflict
and friendship. Her father’s heart is eventually softened by her skill for the
sport and near-death experience. And in the end she wins her struggle for
self-expression and self-fulfilment and gains her father’s approval and the man
of her dreams.
The film stars Cape Town-based actor Greg
Kriek as Cory, the main love interest, and Durban-born, Cape-Town based
Carishma Basday as Sunitha. Kriek has over 40 screen acting credits to his name
and will soon be seen in the next instalment of Universal Studios' Tremors as "Dutch", in 20th
Century Fox's Maize Runner: The Death
Cure, Pureflix's Samson as one of
the leads "Caleb" and also stars as Tony Sinclair in the upcoming
biopic Serengeti Rules from Oscar
winning production company Passion Pictures.
Well-known South African actress Carishma
Basday, a presenter on the popular Mela
magazine show on SABC3, has many film and commercial credits to her name.
Equally at home on stage and screen Casrishma has featured in films 31 Million Reasons (directed by John
Barker) and starred in her first leading role as the love interest of famed
comedian Riaad Moosa in Material
directed by the award-winning Craig Freimond.
“We are thrilled that Arclight managed to
secure significant funding to be able to film this delightful uniquely Durban
story,” said Toni Monty, Head of the Durban Film Office. “As the City’s
industry development unit, we are constantly looking at ways in which we can
encourage production houses to make use of the City as we offer such a wealth
of locations and a myriad settings. Arclight has taken advantage of these, and
we look forward to seeing the fruits of their love and labour on the big
screen.”
Speaking on location on Durban Beachfront
Jacintha, who also produced the second season of Durban Beach Rescue, says post-production will be done another
Durban-based company - The Other Theatre Company.
“We have enough local talent to be able to
make films in Durban,” enthused Jacintha, “but we need to give people a chance
to gain the experience. So it has been fantastic to be able to do this in our
home town.”
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