White Wedding

Film

by Jann Turner

Details

South Africa / 2009 / 92mins / Comedy / English, Zulu, Tswana, Xhosa and Afrikaans

This high-spirited comedy takes place all over South Africa’s beautiful landscape from Johannesburg to Durban, from the Eastern Cape to the Western Cape. White Wedding is an appealing, feel-good movie about love, commitment, intimacy and friendship and a host of maddening obstacles that can get in the way of a happy ending.

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About the Director

Jann Turner

Jann Turner is a South African film director, novelist, television director and screenwriter. She is best known for directing the 2009 film White Wedding, her feature film directorial debut. Born to parents Rick Turner and Barbara Hubbard, Jann faced a brutal tragedy when her father, a banned anti-apartheid academic, was killed in front of her at the age of thirteen. Three months after her father's death, Hubbard fled to Britain with her children, after a threats of being banned. Turner completed her education in Britain and the United States, graduating from Oxford University and Tisch School of the Arts, respectively. Turner has directed episodes on many television series and she is also a novelist, having authored the novels Heartland, Southern Cross and Home Is Where You Find It. Learn More