{"id":19294,"date":"2023-08-28T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T12:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=19294"},"modified":"2023-11-02T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T13:47:51","slug":"mip-africa-opening-night-series-spinners-showmax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2023\/08\/28\/mip-africa-opening-night-series-spinners-showmax\/","title":{"rendered":"MIP Africa Opening Night Series “Spinners” – Showmax"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fasten your seatbelts: Showmax and CANAL+ have just released the kwaai first trailer for their third co-production, Spinners<\/em>, the first African series ever selected in competition at Canneseries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spinners<\/em> follows Ethan, a 17-year-old driver working for a local gang. Needing to support his younger brother but increasingly disgusted with gang life, Ethan discovers a possible way out via spinning, an extreme motorsport where he can put his driving skills to better use. With a gang war looming, can he turn his life around fast enough?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The African film industry is revving up to watch the first episode of Spinners<\/em> on Monday, 4 September 2023, the opening night of MIP Africa, part of FAME Week Africa. The eight-part drama series will then premiere across Sub-Saharan Africa on Showmax on 8 November 2023, with new episodes on Wednesdays for the rest of the year, and on CANAL+ in Africa on 13 November 2023. STUDIOCANAL is handling international sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spinners<\/em>\u2019 cast includes Arendsvlei<\/em>\u2019s Cantona James and Chelsea Thomas in leading roles, along with Dillon Windvogel (Blood & Water) <\/em>and Elton Landrew (Recipes for Love & Murder<\/em>). <\/em>The trailer also gives us first glimpses of South African Film and Television Award (SAFTA) winners <\/em>Brendon Daniels (Zulu, Skemerdans, Five Fingers for Marseille<\/em>) and Dann Jaques Mouton (Arendsvlei<\/em>, Noem My Skollie<\/em>), not to mention SAFTA nominee David Isaacs (co-creator of Joe Barber<\/em>) and rising star Katlego Lebogang (Wounds<\/em>) as the cops closing in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spinners <\/em>is helmed by Jaco Bouwer, director of the 2022 SAFTA Best TV Drama winner 4 Mure <\/em>and the 2021 SXSW Cinematography winner Gaia, <\/em>the most nominated film at the upcoming 2023 SAFTAs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May 2023, Cantona won Best Performance at the inaugural Dakar Series, where Spinners <\/em>also took home Best TV Series and Best Editing for 2023 SAFTA nominee Andrea Shaw (Recipes for Love and Murder<\/em>) and SAFTA winner Matthew Swanepoel (iEmmy nominee Reyka<\/em>, Oscar-shortlisted Inxeba | The Wound<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve never left your jaw on the floor watching spinning, Cantona explains what you\u2019ve been missing. \u201cSpinning is making art with your car,\u201d he says. \u201cGoing in a donut, making an eight, people hanging outside a car while it\u2019s spinning, standing on top of a car\u2026 it\u2019s just thrilling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Chelsea, spinning was a central part of her childhood. \u201cSpinning has always been a big part of culture in Cape Town, in the Cape Flats,\u201d says Chelsea, who plays Amber, the spinner who first inspires Ethan. \u201cI grew up in Kraaifontein, and for all my childhood I would go to the pitch on a Sunday. That would be where all the cars gathered to spin. And I\u2019ve only ever seen men spin. So when I started the job on Spinners<\/em>, then only I learned that females are actually dominating the sport now. Spinners<\/em> shows a different side to it: it shows the passion, the drive, the adrenaline. So I\u2019m excited for the rest of the world to see what our people are all about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spinners<\/em> is co-created by producer Joachim Landau and showrunner Benjamin Hoffman of Empreinte Digitale. The 16LVPD-rated English\/Kaaps\/Afrikaans series is co-produced by Locarno, Amiens and FESPACO winner Ramadan Suleman (Zulu Love Letter, Fools<\/em>) from Natives at Large, Spinners<\/em>\u2019 local co-production company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MIP Africa will also host two panels on Spinners<\/em>, both on Tuesday, 5 September 2023 in MIP Africa Theatre 2 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The first, at 12:30pm CAT, is a co-production case study with Ramadan; Alix Lebrat, COO of TV Series at STUDIOCANAL; and Nicola van Niekerk, head of Premium Content and Co-Productions at MultiChoice. The second, at 13:15 CAT, will explore Spinners<\/em>\u2019 sonic landscape with the show\u2019s post-production audio supervisor James Matthes of Pressure Cooker Studios, location sound mixer Joshua Yon, re-recording engineer Kyle Koekemoer and music supervisor DJ Ready D, the legendary Cape Town hip hip pioneer who also guest stars and composed tracks for the series alongside SAFTA winner Pierre-Henri Wicomb (Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire<\/em>, Gaia<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to present Spinners<\/em> at MIP Africa,\u201d says Martin Hiller, portfolio director of FAME Week Africa. \u201cThis groundbreaking series not only showcases the incredible talent within the African film industry but also highlights the diverse and captivating stories emerging from the continent. Spinners<\/em> is a testament to the power of African storytelling and its ability to captivate audiences on a global scale. We look forward to the discussions and insights that this series will undoubtedly generate during MIP Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more information on MIP Africa, visit www.mipafrica.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on Showmax, visit www.showmax.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on CANAL+, visit www.canalplus-afrique.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on STUDIOCANAL, visit www.studiocanal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fasten your seatbelts: Showmax and CANAL+ have just released the kwaai first trailer for their third co-production, Spinners, the first African series ever selected in competition at Canneseries. Spinners follows Ethan, a 17-year-old driver working for a local gang. Needing to support his younger brother but increasingly disgusted with gang life, Ethan discovers a possible… Continue reading MIP Africa Opening Night Series “Spinners” – Showmax<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[110,344],"class_list":["post-19294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online","tag-showmax","tag-spinners","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}