Wandering Fever

140 characters wasn't long enough to say what I wanted to say about this in a tweet.

In my previous post I mentioned F1 and F2 (more on them later). F1 is one of the two brain children

behind The African Attachment  , an independent film company that is fast growing in the ranks of the SA (and international) film industries.

F1 and The Ironman are constantly planning hiking trips together- both passionate about being outdoors and in the midst of Nature. Such true Natal boys. Without actually crawling into his mind while he sleeps (slightly scary thought that), I can only imagine the amount of 'think-time' that is occupied by trail running and hiking while F1 goes about his day. Suffice to say, it's probably a lot- he's super passionate about what he does.

Proof of how much these guys have going for them is this, the teaser for their latest project on the go at the moment. What I have seen has made me very excited for what's to come. And I'm hoping that our 'couple-love' will last long enough to be invited to see this wondrous thing on the big screen.

If you love running, and if you love breathtaking cinematography, then make some tea and watch their clips. You'll escape from your mundane day-job into an exciting world.

Watch this space.

Love and Gratitude

xx

About The African Attachment:

Before you read on, take a look at this...

The African Attachment is an independent film company based in Cape Town, South Africa, founded by Dean Leslie and Greg Fell. The company was formed with the goal of making commercial independent films by managing any budget whilst maintaining the highest quality end product through a new style of independent guerrilla film making. They have forged relationships with top Producers and Clients locally and abroad and offer production and post-production services.

The African Attachment was hired as part of the Interview's unit on the Golden Globe and Academy Award nominated feature film , 'District 9'.

 

 

They were hired once again by Inspired Minority Pictures to do post-production on 'Pumzi', an African Science Fiction short film commissioned by Focus Features (USA) that won Best International Short at the Cannes Independent Film Festival 2010 , The Silver Audience Award at Toronto After Dark Film Festival as well as being a favourite at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

In late 2008 The African Attachment released the critically acclaimed documentary '12 Mile Stone' and have produced music videos for some of South Africa's top bands including aKING, The Parlotones, The Dirty Skirts, Ashtray Electric, Thieve and Die Heuwels Fantasties, as well as high end EPK's/ AV's in the local music and film industry.

 

They produced The Parlotones – 'Overexposed' music video for Lung Animation – which won Best Music Video at the 2009 SAMA's and was play listed on Mix Music USA which features on over 25 CBS, NBC, Fox, and MyTV affiliates as well as nationally Direct TV (MYX channel 2067) and the AMG Network.

In July 2010 The African Attachment was one of 10 South African Film companies selected from nearly 200 pitches as part of Mnet's MK MVP project.

The duo are currently in production on the documentary, 'Wandering Fever' that has seen them travel around the world for nearly 3 years with South African Ultra-Marathon runner, Ryan Sandes.

All photos were taken from their website - visit it for more information.

- Mands