Hood brings big-time feel to Indie Karoo Film Festival
WHEN filmmaker Gavin Hood appeared at Prince Albert’s Indie Karoo Film Festival on July 2, it was as though Butch Cassidy himself strode into town. Almost 200 visitors and townsfolk shoehorned themselves into the 140-seater art deco theatre, The Showroom, to see the Oscar winner, and he didn’t disappoint.While organisers scrabbled for extra seating, Hood took to the floor to share anecdotes from his newest feature film, Eye in the Sky, a tense military thriller starring Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman. Box office pundits predict the limited release film will gross about $20m, which would put it in the range of the similarly intense and thoughtful Oscar-winning war saga The Hurt Locker, which took in $17m (about $19m in today’s ticket prices).The film was shot entirely in the Western Cape although audiences "see" Kenya, Nevada, Hawaii and London. "Creech Airforce Base (where pilots operate the drones sent in to eliminate al-Shabaab operatives in Kenya) was in fact a small airport outsi...
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