The Bang Bang Club (film)

The Bang Bang Club
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Steven Silver
Screenplay by	Steven Silver
Story by	Greg Marinovich João Silva
Produced by	Adam Friedlander Daniel Iron Lance Samuels
Starring	Taylor Kitsch Ryan Phillippe Frank Rautenbach Neels Van Jaarsveld Malin Åkerman Patrick Lyster Russel Savadier
Cinematography	Miroslaw Baszak
Edited by	Ronald Sanders Tad Seaborn
Music by	Philip Miller
Distributed by	Entertainment One
Release dates	15 September 2010 (2010-09-15) (TIFF) 6 May 2011 (2011-05-06) (Canada)
Running time	106 minutes
Countries	Canada South Africa
Languages	English Zulu Xhosa Afrikaans

The Bang Bang Club is a 2010 Canadian-South African biographical drama film written and directed by Steven Silver and stars Ryan Phillippe as Greg Marinovich, Malin Åkerman as Robin Comley, Taylor Kitsch as Kevin Carter, Frank Rautenbach as Ken Oosterbroek and Neels Van Jaarsveld as João Silva. They portray the lives of four photojournalists active within the townships of South Africa during the apartheid period, particularly between 1990 and 1994, from when Nelson Mandela was released from prison to the 1994 elections.

It is a film adaptation of the book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War co-written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva who were part of the group of four photographers known as the Bang-Bang Club, the other two members being Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek.