04 Apr 2013

A local television production company, Chengeta’s Boy Production (CBP) has continued its efforts to grow the film industry in Botswana.

Last year, the company filmed and completed the first movie in the country entitled Four-thirty, which was purchased by the Ministry of Health and Mnet for BTV and Southern African broadcast respectively.

Currently, CBP is working on the production of Four-thirty part two themed The Valentines Date.

The movie’s first part focused on teenagers’ experiences from different backgrounds and how the world around them affected them, stealing their childhood within a period of 12 hours, taking into consideration today’s era and the various challenges it tabled.

It carried a web of lies, deceit, lust and intergenerational sex, interwoven into a period from 4:30pm when schools knock off, until 4:30am when the night is concluded in tragedy.

Real problems and complexities are experienced to a point of relating characters in heartfelt situations in which they lived separate lives but indirectly or directly affected each other.

The medium of ensuring quick communication and mobility, fuelling the events and transactions to manifest in the shortest period, is aided by the latest developments such as luxurious phones and cars. 

Four-thirty part one ends with a shocking outcome in the lives of characters while the ending was also structured to give way for continuation, hence the second part.

Meanwhile, CBP director Ndinaye Chengeta said the objective of the second part is to give closure and hope to the viewers as the characters are given a second chance.

He added that it also reveals the entire part one was just the main character’s dream.

In Four-thirty part two, the character wakes up at 1632 hours on a Friday afternoon and it is Valentine’s Day.

“The story focuses on deliberate HIV transmission through cyber communication, the drama is real and the content is heart stopping,” said Chengeta.

Again, he said the drama is driven by the technology of communication of mediums, social networks, disposable income and the latest cars, webbing together characters in a chilling experience of a world of deliberate HIV transmission.

However, the filming starts in July this year, while the movie will be released on Valentine’s Day next year. ENDS