Hi, Some whistle-blowing here, I am the film composer and own the audio post production studios that facilitated all audio post on this project. We operate the only Dolby Digital credited facilities in South Africa. The audio post budget was extremely tight, $20 000,00 for all sound post including original score (live orchestra) and music licensing, including Dolby license. The producers (Anton Ernst Entertainment) have to date not paid one cent for the sound post and music on this project. All costs of soundtrack production have been carried by my company, Cut & Paste Generation / Kwazi Mojo Media. They have not paid other suppliers either, including, courier services, picture post houses, editors and special effects. I have been composing for film and facilitating state of the art sound post studios for over 20 years now, continually re-investing in our local film industry and hoping for the 'big break' movie that so many of these films have in common when briefing in the work. Me and my crew work extremely hard at creating world class soundtracks, but we're always at the mercy of the production as a whole. There's an industry saying: You can't polish a turd!' (I know myth busters bust this but..!) Bottom line, The producers of this film leveraged the (2008) S.A. film rebate scheme, making themselves profit and not paying the suppliers who created their film. (I have all invoices and documentation to prove that these invoices were submitted by the producers to the DTI rebate scheme.) I managed to survive this bad debt, but many companies I know of did not. It is truly despicable how some people act in our industry. The producer, Anton Ernst, is still making movies here and in the USA, - he just never works with the same crew twice. Regards. Alun Richards
