{"id":108857,"date":"2016-10-21T08:19:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T06:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=108857"},"modified":"2016-10-21T08:33:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T06:33:30","slug":"the-south-african-movie-that-could-win-an-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/108857-the-south-african-movie-that-could-win-an-oscar","title":{"rendered":"The South African movie that could win an Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">South African film\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4627352\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shepherds and Butchers<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0hits South African screens next week and is already gathering massive international acclaim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">It&#8217;s already won the Maverick Award for best feature narrative and the Hasklell Wexler Award for best cinematography at the Woodstock Film Festival in New York state, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2016\/10\/19\/SA-movie-has-global-festivalgoers-raving\" target=\"_blank\">Times Live<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">Shepherds and Butchers is based on the true story of prison guard, Leon Labuschagne who snaps after witnessing several prisoner executions and kills seven members of a Diepsloot karate team in cold blood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">The movie may have strong local competition however, with <strong>Noem my Skollie<\/strong> being named\u00a0South Africa\u2019s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2016-09-28-noem-my-skollie\" target=\"_blank\">official selection<\/a><\/strong> for the 89th\u00a0edition of the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">To date, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0468565\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tsotsi <\/a><\/strong>is the only South African film to walk-away with golden statuette but as can be evidenced by the strong films coming out of the country, South Africa may not have to wait much longer for another.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/108337-the-biggest-movie-releases-in-south-africa-this-week-18.html\" target=\"_blank\">The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This South African movie has international critics raving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":108863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7702,18471,14560,22949],"class_list":["post-108857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-graphics","tag-power","tag-specifications","tag-switch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108867,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108857\/revisions\/108867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}