Gonarezhou is a 2019 Zimbabwean anti-poaching awareness film written and directed by Sydney Taivavashe.[2] The film is produced in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority.[3]
| Gonarezhou | |
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| Directed by | Sydney Taivavashe |
| Starring | Tariro Mnangagwa, Tamy Moyo |
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| Country | Zimbabwe |
The film is about a young man called Zulu who suffers various misfortunes and joins a poaching gang.[4]
The film is scheduled to be released in 2019 with no actual date stated.[7] Gonarezhou was shown at the 2020 Pan African Film Festival.[8]
In 2017, Sydney announced that he was working on a feature film about poaching and that he started developing the script since 2013.[9] The story was inspired by the killings of 300 elephants by poachers using cyanide in 2013.[10] [11] Principal Photography started in November of 2018.[12]