By Neo Kolane
A film production company, Mountain Range Motpics presents a marathon of locally produced short films in association with Club Yugo this coming Sunday from noon to 9:00pm.
Mountain Range Motpics is on a mission to revolutionize the film industry.
The marathon is a cinema experience aimed at promoting the film industry in Lesotho.
The director and organiser of the cinema experience, Katleho Lephema, notes there is a gap that needs to be filled in the film industry in Lesotho.
Lephema said Lesotho is unlike other countries where people benefit financially from films and where actors are recognized because they get awards.
“The gap is that local films are mostly watched by people close to us, so what we are trying to achieve is for local films to be watched by everyone.
“It’s just an experience we want for people to witness the abundance of raw talent that Lesotho has as far as actors are concerned.
“Moving forward, we will be working on submitting our films on Netflix; we are currently in that process.”
Netflix, Inc. is an American pay television over-the-top media service and original programming production company. It offers subscription-based video on demand from a library of films and television series, 40 percent of which is Netflix original programming produced in-house.
“Where we are now is a step forward for our films to be watched by different people not just the local ones.
“We want actors to feel that they are real actors,” Lephema said.
The Mountain Range Motpics founder mentioned one of the guests that will be at the cinema experience as Ntsiki Mahanetsa; an actress from the local blockbuster movie called The Curse.
He said Ntsiki was chosen because she is popular in the film industry and people have been eager to meet her, so this will be their chance.
He disclosed that the five films that will be watched are: Quarantine, The Curse, Sleep Aftermath, Soba la Nale and another one which is still in the pipeline.
“Those movies portray Basotho stories and they are in Sesotho language.
“We want nothing but 100 percent local movies,” Katleho said.
