| 19 February 2021
Recently launched streaming service Topic from First Look Media has struck a deal with London-based content development, financing and executive producing company Fugitive to air exclusively in North America from 8 April Poppie Nongena, one of South Africa’s most acclaimed films of recent years.
Based on Elsa Joubert’s 1978 international bestseller The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena, regarded as one of the best African novels of the 20th century, the two-hour film tells the true-life story of a mother’s struggle to keep her family together during the Apartheid period, specifically just prior to the Sharpeville and Soweto riots. It’s a time of immense upheaval, when inhumane government regulations constantly separated husbands, wives and children, often resettling them in remote areas designated as black homelands.