Catch a Fire (film)

Catch a Fire
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPhillip Noyce
Written byShawn Slovo
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byJill Bilcock
Music byPhilip Miller
Production
companies
Distributed byFocus Features (United States)
StudioCanal (France)[1]
Universal Pictures (International)
Release dates
  • 27 October 2006 (2006-10-27) (US)
  • 23 March 2007 (2007-03-23) (UK)
Running time
101 minutes[2]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • France
  • South Africa
LanguageEnglish
Budget$14 million
Box office$5.7 million

Catch a Fire is a 2006 biographical thriller film about activists against apartheid in South Africa. The film was directed by Phillip Noyce, from a screenplay written by Shawn Slovo. Slovo's father, Joe Slovo, and mother Ruth First, leaders of the South African Communist Party and activists in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, appear as characters in the film, while her sister, Robyn Slovo, is one of the film's producers and also plays their mother Ruth First. Catch a Fire was filmed on location in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique.

  1. ^ "Film #26451: Catch a Fire". Lumiere. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  2. ^ BBFC: Catch a Fire Retrieved 2013-03-11