Darrell Roodt
Encyclopedia
Darrell Roodt is a South African film director
, screenwriter
and producer.
His film Sarafina
was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival
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Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and producer.
His film Sarafina
Sarafina
Sarafina! is a South African musical by Mbongeni Ngema depicting students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to apartheid. It was also adapted into a 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Leleti Khumalo....
was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival
1992 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :*Gérard Depardieu *John Boorman *Carlo Di Palma *Jamie Lee Curtis *Joële Van Effenterre *Lester James Peries *Nana Djordjadze *Pedro Almodóvar *René Cleitman...
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Awards
His film Yesterday (2004) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language FilmAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
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As director
- City of BloodCity of BloodCity of Blood is a 1983 South African thriller film directed by Darrell Roodt and starring Joe Stewardson, Ian Yule, Ken Gampu.-Plot:A coroner becomes involved with a prostitute, while investigating a series of murders.-Cast:...
(1983) - Place of Weeping (1986)
- The Stick (1987)
- Tenth of a Second (1987)
- Jobman (1990)
- Sarafina!Sarafina! (film)Sarafina! is a 1992 South African film starring Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba, John Kani and Tertius Meintjies.-Plot:The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools.The character...
(1992) - Father HoodFather HoodFather Hood is a 1993 comedy-drama film starring Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry and directed by Darrell Roodt.- Plot :The kids of small-time crook Jack Charles are put in a corrupt state-run home when their mother dies of cancer...
(1993) - To the Death (1993)
- Cry, the Beloved CountryCry, the Beloved Country (1995 film)Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1995 film directed by Darrell Roodt. Based on the novel Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton it stars James Earl Jones and Richard Harris. It features the song Exile by Enya. The score was composed by John Barry....
(1995) - Dangerous GroundDangerous GroundDangerous Ground is a 1997 thriller starring Ice Cube and Elizabeth Hurley. It was directed by Darrell Roodt and written by Greg Latter and Darrell Roodt.-Plot:...
(1997) - Second Skin (2000)
- Witness to a Kill (2001)
- Pavement (2002)
- Sumuru (2003)Sumuru (2003)Sumuru or Sax Rohmer's Sumuru is a 2003 pulp SF film directed by Darrell Roodt and starring Alexandra Kamp and Michael Shanks. It is an update of Sumuru by pulp novelist Sax Rohmer about a megalomaniac femme fatale, now set on a distant planet....
- Dracula 3000Dracula 3000Dracula 3000, also titled Dracula 3000: Infinite Darkness, is a horror movie released in 2004 that brings the legend of Count Dracula into outer space in the distant 31st century...
(2004) TV film - Yesterday (2004)
- "Dirty Laundry" (2005) episode of the TV series Charlie JadeCharlie JadeCharlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with...
- Faith's Corner (2005)
- Cryptid (2006)
- Number 10 (2006)
- Lullaby (2008)
- Meisie (2007)
- PreyPrey (2007 film)Prey is a 2007 horror thriller film based on a screenplay from Jeff Wadlow, Beau Bauman and was co-written and directed by Darrell Roodt, the film stars Bridget Moynahan, Peter Weller and Carly Schroeder.-Cast:* Bridget Moynahan as Amy Newman...
(2007) - Ella Blue (2008) TV mini-series
- Zimbabwe (2008)
- Jakhaldans (2010)