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TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #19. Steven Silver’s The Bang Bang Club

Suited for a distributor looking to grab the moviegoer segment who are inclined to read/watch the world news and would have paid to have seen Hotel Rwanda or The Devil Came on Horseback.

Eric Lavallée

Published on August 28, 2010

#19. The Bang Bang Club

The Gist: Starring Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Neels Van Jaarsveld and Frank Rautenbach, the Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa and the final demise of apartheid. The film tells the remarkable and sometimes harrowing story of these young men – and the extraordinary extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures.

Director: Steven Silver (Diameter of the Bomb)
Sales Agent: E1
Selling Point: The film packages fact based events, with good looking cast and thriller elements.
Suited For: Debuted at the Cannes market, this is suited for a distributor looking to grab the moviegoer segment who are inclined to read/watch the world news and would have paid to have seen Hotel Rwanda or The Devil Came on Horseback.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).