Eighteam

Eighteam
Directed byJuan Rodriguez-Briso
Written byJuan Rodriguez-Briso
Produced byJuan Rodriguez-Briso
Ngosa Chungu (co-producer)
StarringKalusha Bwalya
CinematographyPablo García-Sanz
Edited byLeandro Tolchinsky
Music byMichael Nyman
Production
companies
Running time
70 minutes
CountriesSpain
Zambia
LanguageEnglish

Eighteam is a 2015 Spanish/Zambian documentary film written and directed by Juan Rodriguez-Briso. It is based on the true story of the Zambia national football team. The team are commonly known as Chipolopolo - the "copper bullets"[1] and the film follows their journey from tragedy to glory.

  1. ^ David Clement Ruffelle Scott, A Cyclopaedic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language (Foreign Mission Committee of the Church of Scotland, 1892), p. 90: "Chipolopolo, 4, A bullet."