120: Directing "Escape from Pretoria" (SASF LAMP Club)
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Huge excitement for this episode as the guys have up-and-coming director Francis Annan on to discuss his movie "Escape from Pretoria" (which all must watch...really, do it!). Francis describes what it was like to get the film made, including challenges from local governments to talent and, ultimately, to a virus shutting theaters down four days into his movie's launch. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as do most things given by a good Father. This episode is extra long as the conversation covers all steps of the directing process, from inspiration to adapting from a book to working with A-list talent like Daniel Radcliffe and the real-life heroes behind the film. You'll find that there was a conscious decision behind everything the film portrays. And you'll hear the real-life pressure-cooker situation behind shooting the infamous "gum" scene.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stories Our Soul Food podcast, presented by Cannonball Books, the kids' fiction imprint of Canon Press. |
| 0:07.9 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:11.8 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell. |
| 0:15.0 | Made a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:17.1 | Well, here we go. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to Stories or Soul Food. |
| 0:19.8 | Sasp. |
| 0:20.6 | The SASP podcast, we are here with special guest today. |
| 0:23.8 | Francis Anon. Anon. I've heard lots of different versions on the interviews you've done on YouTube. |
| 0:29.8 | So I was hoping to ask the source. |
| 0:31.8 | Francis Anon or Francis Anan. If it was my contemporaries, my parents and my grandparents, they would say Anan. Anan. Okay. Okay. And then. Okay. And I heard it |
| 0:41.8 | here. Frances. Anan. We're here to do. I wouldn't have said it that way. So that's good. I'm glad we got that |
| 0:47.1 | out of the way. I figured it was better to ask. He hasn't corrected me one time when I've, I introduced him to people. So I say Francis. |
| 0:54.6 | A non. |
| 0:55.0 | I think like a non. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.7 | A non bread. |
| 0:58.0 | It'll be a nan. |
| 0:58.9 | No. |
| 1:00.5 | We got it. |
| 1:01.4 | Yes. |
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