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DOWN AND DIRTY

By Angie MILLS

Drama - Completed 2015

“Been down so long don’t know which way is up…”

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Angie MILLS
- Writer(s)
- Angie MILLS, Damir RADONIC , Damon HEATLIE
- Cast
- Tshamano SEBE, Ilse KLINK, Brendon DANIELS
- Producer(s)
- Angie MILLS, Damir RADONIC
- Synopsis
- Joe Mabena is a former fisherman who works as a welder when we meet him. He lives in a sprawling shack with his family, eking out a meager existence in Goed Baai, an informal seaside settlement in Cape Town. He spends much of his time drowning his sorrows at the bottom of a bottle and goes to work under the influence of alcohol. One day his drunkenness prevents him from seeing that his blow torch could ignite a fire and it blows up a gas tank leading to a loss of his eye. The company compensates him and his family and neighbourhood anticipate good times and a better life. But Joe has his own ideas and this leads to conflict.