{"id":31810,"date":"2012-08-17T09:59:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31810"},"modified":"2012-08-17T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:04:50","slug":"masekela-family-feature-film-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31810","title":{"rendered":"Masekela Family Feature Film On The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/olympus-movie__120816230811-e1345158546829-275x226.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/olympus-movie__120816230811-e1345158546829-275x226.jpg','popup','width=275,height=226,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/olympus-movie__120816230811-e1345158546829-275x226-tm.jpg\" height=\"164\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Olympus-Movie  120816230811-E1345158546829-275X226\" \/><\/a>The story of <strong>Sal Masekela&#8217;s<\/strong> relationship with his musician father <strong>Hugh<\/strong> could be hitting the big screen in a feature film from <strong>Olympic Pictures<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Haggis\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Haggis<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/08\/olympus-pictures-and-paul-haggis-set-south-african-father-son-masekela-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>South African filmmaker <strong>Mukunda Michael Dewil<\/strong> has been hired to write and direct the film. The project follows a son emerging out of the shadow of his successful but troubled father set against a backdrop of music, surfing, and South Africa\u2019s racism. The untitled Masekela project will be produced by<strong> Leslie Urdang<\/strong> and<strong> Dean Vanech<\/strong> of Olympus Pictures, <strong>Haggis<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Nozik<\/strong> of <strong>Hwy 61 Films<\/strong>, and Selema Masekela.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re looking forward to this one if only to see the Hollywood version of Sal&#8217;s autobiography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/08\/olympus-pictures-and-paul-haggis-set-south-african-father-son-masekela-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Sal Masekela&#8217;s relationship with his musician father Hugh could be hitting the big screen in a feature film from Olympic Pictures and Paul Haggis, according to a story on Deadline.com. South African filmmaker Mukunda Michael Dewil has been hired to write and direct the film. The project follows a son emerging out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31812,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31810\/revisions\/31812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}