High Fantasy
ABOUT THE FILM
A group of young friends on a camping trip, deep in the South African countryside wake up to discover they have all swapped bodies. Their individual cultural heritage and experience of these strange happenings couldn’t be more different; and stranded in the wilderness, they will have to navigate a personal-political labyrinth if their friendship and their lives are ever to be the same again. The stage is set for comedy to turn to tragedy, for the fantasy of South Africa’s “Rainbow Nation” to become a painful awakening.
DIRECTOR
Jenna Bass
WRITER
Jenna Cato Bass, Qondiswa James, Nala Khumalo, Loren Loubser, Francesca Varrie Michel, Liza Scholtz
CAST
Jenna Cato Bass, Qondiswa James, Nala Khumalo, Loren Loubser, Francesca Varrie Michel, Liza Scholtz
RUN TIME
71 min
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY
“‘High Fantasy’ — shot all on an iPhone 7 — tackles race, gender & class in post-apartheid South Africa” Nella Fitzgerald – SHADOW AND ACT
“‘High Fantasy’ is an artistic & intimate body-swap drama” Andrew Crump – THE PLAYLIST
“‘High Fantasy’ Is High In Quality, And One Of The Year’s Best Films” Edgar Chaput – GOOMBASTOMP