Blood & Water Review: Intrigue, Romance and Suspense
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Blood & Water, Netflix’s second African original series is a teen melodrama set in modern-day Cape Town, South Africa.
The Nosipho Dumisa story is centered around the reopening of a cold child trafficking case that dates back 17 years involving the mysterious disappearance of the first child of the Khumalo family.
The season begins with a fed-up 16-year old Puleng Khumalo (Ama Qamata) leaving a birthday celebration for her long lost sister- Phumelele Khumalo. She ends up going to another birthday party in a new city in honor of Fikile Bhele (Khosi Ngema) after her best friend Zama (Cindy Mahlangu) convinces her to be her plus-one.
At the party, Puleng, who was initially not having a good time, meets Wade (Dillon Windvogel), a photographer for the school’s editorial team and the son of the Principal. There is however this unwavering obsession Puleng has for the birthday girl. For some reason, she believes she is linked to the child trafficking incident that continues to haunt her parents. This leads her to start her own private investigation. Puleng’s obsession with Fiks becomes the title of the first episode- Fiksation which I think was a clever play on words.
Following the arrest of her dad at her school, Puleng convinces her worried mother to change schools. With an agenda in mind, she convinces Wade to get her a meeting with his mother, the Principal of Parkhurst College, one of the most prestigious schools in the city, where Fikile and the other kids from the birthday party school.
The show does well to showcase the beautiful infrastructure and scenery in South Africa and makes use of lots of its local music. Rapper YoungstaCPT was given a notable mention when Puleng explained to KB’s cool dad that he is an embodiment of what the old-school hip hop artistes like Tupac Shakur used to represent with their music. The series, which is mainly in English, is rich with dialogue and sensory detail with dashes of the Zulu and Xhosa languages. With the opinionated Wendy Damini‘s (Natasha Thahane) constant pestering of her teachers, we get to learn new things about the history of South Africa.
In Puleng’s search for truth, she finds herself in a love triangle with her first real friend at Parkhurst- Wade and KB (Thabang Molaba), an aspiring rapper trying to live up to the high expectations of his father.
The show reminds me of MTV Shuga Down South which is based on teenagers in high school. Just like Blood & Water, it touches on issues like sexual orientation, music, and an inappropriate sexual relationship between a student and an instructor. The main difference is that Shuga’s focal message and reach address sexual reproductive health.
The story was written and directed by award-winning South African filmmaker Nosipho Dumisa, famous for her 2018 feature film debut, “Number 37,” a film with lots of good reviews. Gambit Films saw to its production led by Bradley Joshua and Benjamin Overmeyer with Daryne Joshua & Travis Taute as co-directors and writers.
“Blood & Water” joins other Netflix productions like ‘Riverdale‘ ‘On My Block‘ and Selena Gomez‘s ‘13 Reasons Why‘ as a teen drama that most teenagers can easily relate to and fall in love with. After its very successful virtual premiere in 190 countries across the world with over 100,000 viewers tuned in, it is safe to say the team behind its production did an amazing job.
Blood & Water, Netflix’s second African original series is a teen melodrama set in modern-day Cape Town, South Africa.
The Nosipho Dumisa story is centered around the reopening of a cold child trafficking case that dates back 17 years involving the mysterious disappearance of the first child of the Khumalo family.
The season begins with a fed-up 16-year old Puleng Khumalo (Ama Qamata) leaving a birthday celebration for her long lost sister- Phumelele Khumalo. She ends up going to another birthday party in a new city in honor of Fikile Bhele (Khosi Ngema) after her best friend Zama (Cindy Mahlangu) convinces her to be her plus-one.
At the party, Puleng, who was initially not having a good time, meets Wade (Dillon Windvogel), a photographer for the school’s editorial team and the son of the Principal. There is however this unwavering obsession Puleng has for the birthday girl. For some reason, she believes she is linked to the child trafficking incident that continues to haunt her parents. This leads her to start her own private investigation. Puleng’s obsession with Fiks becomes the title of the first episode- Fiksation which I think was a clever play on words.
Following the arrest of her dad at her school, Puleng convinces her worried mother to change schools. With an agenda in mind, she convinces Wade to get her a meeting with his mother, the Principal of Parkhurst College, one of the most prestigious schools in the city, where Fikile and the other kids from the birthday party school.
The show does well to showcase the beautiful infrastructure and scenery in South Africa and makes use of lots of its local music. Rapper YoungstaCPT was given a notable mention when Puleng explained to KB’s cool dad that he is an embodiment of what the old-school hip hop artistes like Tupac Shakur used to represent with their music. The series, which is mainly in English, is rich with dialogue and sensory detail with dashes of the Zulu and Xhosa languages. With the opinionated Wendy Damini‘s (Natasha Thahane) constant pestering of her teachers, we get to learn new things about the history of South Africa.
In Puleng’s search for truth, she finds herself in a love triangle with her first real friend at Parkhurst- Wade and KB (Thabang Molaba), an aspiring rapper trying to live up to the high expectations of his father.
The show reminds me of MTV Shuga Down South which is based on teenagers in high school. Just like Blood & Water, it touches on issues like sexual orientation, music, and an inappropriate sexual relationship between a student and an instructor. The main difference is that Shuga’s focal message and reach address sexual reproductive health.
The story was written and directed by award-winning South African filmmaker Nosipho Dumisa, famous for her 2018 feature film debut, “Number 37,” a film with lots of good reviews. Gambit Films saw to its production led by Bradley Joshua and Benjamin Overmeyer with Daryne Joshua & Travis Taute as co-directors and writers.
“Blood & Water” joins other Netflix productions like ‘Riverdale‘ ‘On My Block‘ and Selena Gomez‘s ‘13 Reasons Why‘ as a teen drama that most teenagers can easily relate to and fall in love with. After its very successful virtual premiere in 190 countries across the world with over 100,000 viewers tuned in, it is safe to say the team behind its production did an amazing job.
The Screen film actor with the stage name Lommy Gh in an interview at Africafilm house translated a huge comment on how producers are not properly paying Actors to feature in a casted film. He said “ I have not been fairly happy with the attitude of a few producers who call on him for a film shoot “ they talk sweet but they have no quality to pay 💰 for the job. Sometimes I end up paying some of the Actors or feeding the entire production with my own 💴 money. Filmmaking is my career as in every professional career film is also a big stage profession , but the problem is the system does not work in Africa. “ Lommy the Film superstar has featured in most movies like : The Fisherman’s Wife directed by Roland Ocansey, Fear for Love , directed by Roland Ocansey Lastly he stated I wish I was I can go back to the United States 🇺🇸 to continue my career there .# Change film production. By roland Ocansey
Tilly and Titi two young super cool Actress , Tilly Ghanaian born Ga ascent. And Titi a Nigerian born ascent. This two Actresses are left from a casting call for film because they spoke to me openedly in my #Film is a career “ web tv 📺 show , saying most directors wants to have sexy with them before they will be casted for a role to feature in a film. This is the only harassment young and upcoming young actress have been facing when they are called for a production. They continue in a hard pinch to say because of that most directors do not call them for their films anymore. A country like 🇬🇭 Ghana and 🇳🇬 Nigeria must collaborate to make make African film the standing pilla of Africa,
Bisa Kdei has finally met renowned American playwright David E. Talbert and his spouse Lyn Sisson Talbert, who used his song for a Hollywood movie. Bisa Kdei finally meets top Hollywood producers who used his track for Christmas film The Ghanaian Highlife musician was recruited as one of the music composers of the Christmas Netflix film "Jingle Jangle" together with the likes of Usher Raymond, John Legend, Phillip Lawrence, Davy Nathan and Michael Diskint. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHiZ2S9DL0a/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=cb3d1022-e2d9-4895-a779-a32ea91293ab The Hollywood movie which debuted in December 2020 featured Bisa Kdei's 'Asew' song. Following the success of the movie, new photos show that the award-winning Ghanaian singer has met with renowned Hollywood producers at Beverly Hills where they discussed positive strides made by the movie. The "Asew'' remix soundtrack in the "Jingle Jangle" Netflix film was nominated for the 2021...
The young art New York film blogger Roland Ocansey popularity known as “Mc obroni Roland “ recently twisted on an Africanfilm newsletter calling on investor to work with mot of the Africa young writers and producers.then he quoted “ think about the impact of the new generation what history will they leave as a legacy when you gone home”#Filmlove #Africanfilm The recent update in film 🎞 shooting in Ghana 🇬🇭 has suddenly fallen of hope , we can only get on our hard feet by training young talent and promoting young art i our various countries. Roland Kobi Kobi Ocansey is a filmography,cinematographer, Filmmaker, Social media blogger, Blogger of filmhouseblog.spot.com Owns a film blogging website which promote advertising for film blog distribution. You can follow our page via Facebook and all media networks Twitter:@ocanseyroland as blogger and Mc Facebook @ocanseyroland as Mc LinkedIn @ocanseyroland Instagram @eye-writer Ocansey Roland
the roland is roland ocansey a script writer a producer of elementary features writing is my hobby but cant i do for a living ,i have all the resources i need on earth Rolandocansey23@gmail.com
Ghanaian film director Kuukua Eshun gets her film “Unveiling” premiered in a German Museum December 16, 2021 4:24 PM Budding Ghanaian filmmaker and director Kuukua Eshun recently released her new film “Unveiling”, a powerful rape documentary. Ghanaian film director Kuukua Eshun gets her film “Unveiling” premiered in a German Museum “Unveiling”, directed by Kuukua Eshun, is a documentary created due to two women being vulnerable with each other—unveiling their truths allowing each to see herself in the other. Akpene Diata Hoggar and Kuukua Eshun produced this film. This film was commissioned by the ANO Institute of Arts & Knowledge and was first shown at the Museum Ostwall Im Dortmunder U On December 10th and would be showing till March 6th. This same museum has works of the famous Pablo Picasso and celebrated Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. This film shows us as part of an exhibition by Ghanaian author and filmmaker Nana Oforiatta Ayim envisioned when she curated "EFIE: The Muse...
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