Skeem

Skeem
Film poster
Directed byTim Greene
Written byTim Greene
Produced byTim Greene
StarringWandile Molebatsi

Kurt Schoonraad

Lilani Prinston
Release date
  • 2011 (2011)
Running time
111 Minutes
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageEnglish
BudgetR 1.2 Million
Box office$71, 505

Skeem is a 2011 South African movie that was written and directed by Tim Greene.[1] It premiered on 16 October 2011 at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, where it won the Audience's Choice Award,[2][3] and opened to local theaters in South Africa later that same month.[4]

Of the film, Greene has stated that he wanted to create a film that South Africans could watch that they could be proud of and "doesn't beat them up, lash them and make them feel like watching South African films is like penance".[4] The title track for the film, "Oons behoort mos saam", was sung by Jack Parow and EJ von Lyrik.[5]

  1. ^ "Director's Chat". Tim Greene. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  2. ^ "SA film Skeem scoops international award". The Sowetan. 24 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Local Director, Tim Greene, to Compete with World's Best..." SPL!NG. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  4. ^ a b Smith, Theresa (29 October 2011). "Tim Greene schemes 'Skeem' won't be like a penance for SA audiences". Saturday Star.
  5. ^ Lewis, Megan (1 December 2016). Performing Whitely in the Postcolony: Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life. University of Iowa Press. pp. 583–584. ISBN 9781609384487.