{"id":23363,"date":"2025-03-06T14:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=23363"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:44:23","slug":"catch-sterring-first-at-joburg-film-festival-ahead-of-its-showmax-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2025\/03\/06\/catch-sterring-first-at-joburg-film-festival-ahead-of-its-showmax-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch &#8220;Sterring&#8221; First at Joburg Film Festival Ahead of Its Showmax Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>World premiere: 6pm, 13 March at Theatre On The Square as part of Joburg Film Festival<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Stream on Showmax from Friday,<\/em> <em>4 April<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspired by 90s action movies, Ramz dreams of becoming a hero who can take down bullies like Shaka. His dream turns into reality when he accidentally saves a superstar actress from a mugging, earning him the reputation of a real-life <em>Sterring.<\/em> His newfound fame puts him in the crosshairs of Bra Tony, a powerful businessman and underground drug kingpin whose empire starts crumbling because of Ramz\u2019s growing influence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SAFTA nominee Mathews Rantsoma (<em>Scandal!<\/em>, <em>Adulting S3<\/em>) stars as Ramz, opposite Sabelo Majola (<em>Generations: The Legacy<\/em>) as the menacing Shaka and Siphiwe Nkosi (Mbobozehluzo Msibi in<em> Isibaya<\/em>) as the ruthless Bra Tony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sterring | Trailer | Now on Showmax\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8n9gkVyMS7A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sterring<\/em> is produced and directed by Africa Movie Academy Awards nominee Kgosana Monchusi (<em>Four Walls, A Safe Bet, The Real Housewives of Cape Town).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World premiere: 6pm, 13 March at Theatre On The Square as part of Joburg Film Festival Stream on Showmax from Friday, 4 April Inspired by 90s action movies, Ramz dreams of becoming a hero who can take down bullies like Shaka. His dream turns into reality when he accidentally saves a superstar actress from a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2025\/03\/06\/catch-sterring-first-at-joburg-film-festival-ahead-of-its-showmax-debut\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catch &#8220;Sterring&#8221; First at Joburg Film Festival Ahead of Its Showmax Debut<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-23363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online","tag-showmax","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SterringBanner.avif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363","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=23363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}