Feature Documentary From the Academy Award Winning Makers of Searching for Sugar Man and Man on Wire Screens at Jozi Film Festival 05

Feature Documentary From The Academy Award Winning Makers of Searching for Sugar Man and Man on Wire Screens at Jozi Film Festival 2015

Jozi Film Festival is pleased to announce that the director of Garnet's Gold, British filmmaker Ed Perkins, will be in Johannesburg for this year's festival. Garnet's Gold screened at Tribeca and Edinburgh Film Festivals last year this is the African premiere.

Film Synopsis

Twenty years ago Garnet Frost escaped London and headed into the desolate Scottish wilderness. Setting off without a map, disaster struck. Garnet found himself trapped between a mountain and the mysterious Loch Arkaig. Lost, cold and alone, he resigned himself to die. But Garnet didn't die. By sheer chance, he was saved by a lone fisherman.

For the past two decades, Garnet has been haunted by a memento from his doomed trip. He believes an unusual wooden staff he found while waiting to die is actually a marker for one of history's most famous lost treasures a spectacular fortune once owned by Bonnie Prince Charlie and lost since 1746. Now, two decades after the trip which almost killed him, Garnet is ready to return to the mysterious loch in his quest to find the gold.

What Garnet finds up there, amidst the towering landscape, changes his life forever. Garnet's Gold is more than a fascinating historical insight into a lost treasure. This is a journey into the mind of a man searching for meaning. A search with which we can all empathise. This is a film about dreams, inspiration and the resonating power of hope.

This is a film about all of us.

Ed Perkins will be at both screenings of the film next weekend The Bioscope on Saturday 21 Feb at 12pm and Cinema Nouveau Rosebank on Sunday 22 Feb at 4:15pm. Q&A sessions to follow both screenings.

Ed will also be holding a masterclass at the Goethe-Institute on Jan Smuts Ave on Saturday morning at 10am. Tickets are R40 at the door.

For more info, visit www.jozifilmfestival.co.za.

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