3 October 2008
The producers of popular local crime film titles such as Makwetsepe 1&2, and Flash, begin the premiering of their latest crime movie, White Collar at the end of this month (October 31) at the Cresta Hotel, Gaborone, where it will run for two days till November 1.
After opening in Gaborone, the movie will also premier in Francistown on a date to be announced.
Baboneng Film Company has been working on the production for most of this year. The movie was shot in Palapye and Gaborone and the producer Seabelo Kesebonye successfully negotiated with authorities to shoot at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, as well as to use popular transport service, Seabelo Express, where some scenes are shot in the bus.
The MD of Baboneng film company says he is delighted to have secured a prime location in the Cresta Lodge for the premier. "The management of Cresta Hotel has enabled us to showcase our product to our target clients by offering to host the premier. Being a highly regarded hotel that it is, we believe the venue will attract the target audience, because we want the corporate sector to buy tickets for their employees as a way of supporting the local film production. In this way the corporate sector will have contributed in a big way to making the movie a success," Kesebonye says.
The more than 1 hour 30 minutes-long movie was not easy to produce, according to the producer as he had to fund the production from his pocket.
The premier of White Collar has also been made possible thanks to the support of the Department of Culture and Youth, who injected a substantial amount of money towards the launch.
Kesebonye views the premier of the movie as a professional development in his movie career as this marks the first time he has staged a premier for his productions.
"Premiers by their nature go a long way in promoting and marketing the movie. Hopefully through a series of premiers planned, there will be a lot of awareness created about the film.
The local actors and actresses can only benefit when there is good demand and uptake of the movie by the consumers," Kesebonye further says.
Babobeng Film Production's other self- funded movie, Flash, released in collaboration with Eric Ramco films in 2006 went on to win double awards at the Vision 2016 Awards, under the pillars: Safe and Secure nation, and Educated and Informed nation.
Kesebonye says White Collar has been submitted for consideration for awards at the Swedish Film Festival next year (February, 2009).
"Our movies' objectives are to create awareness to the unsuspecting members of the public about tactics used by conmen to swindle the ordinary citizen of their hard-earned money."
Kesebonye says in the past the Botswana Police Service Crime Prevention Unit purchased his movie, "Makwetsepe" for use as educational material in crime prevention.
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