Tom Maguire’s documentary feature ‘Out in Africa’, produced by Borderline Productions, is set to premiere at this year’s GAZE film festival, which takes place from Thursday 31 July – Monday 4 August 2008.
The film, which shot from December 2007 – February 2008 on location in South Africa, tells the story of Northern Irish man Victor Corrigan and South African Kyle Stuart who get married in a traditional Afrikaaner village, following the change in the South African Civil Unions Bill which came into force on the 30th November 2006.
The doco, funded by Northern Ireland Screen, was shot by South African cameraman Mark Van Wyk and edited by Brian Lynch.
“I more or less followed the couple for the three months,” Maguire told IFTN. “I interviewed townsfolk, family and friends and wanted to find out why they had been accepted so readily in this community that was viewed by the rest of the world as being arch-conservative.”
Borderline Productions are currently shooting documentary ‘The Rat That Roared’ in Mozambique and Tanzania, which focuses on the giant African pouch rats that are trained to sniff out landmines in Mozambique and Angola. The doco received development funding by Northern Ireland Screen, with funding by TG4, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam’s Jan Vrijman fund and Belgian broadcaster RTBS.
